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Photoshop 1.0 Release
Photoshop 1.0 was released on February 19th, 1990, created by Thomas and John Knoll as an exclusive Macintosh application. It is a graphics editing software that has been synonymous with the digital art industry since its inception. -
JPEG Finalized as Digital Image Standard
JPEG, short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, is a digital image standard that was created in 1992 as a means to compress digital images using a variable adjustment rate. -
Amazon
Originally founded in July 1994 by Jeff Bezos under the name Cadabra, Inc, Amazon started out as an online marketplace for books that has now grown to be the largest E-Commerce Marketplace on the Internet. -
DVD
The invention of the Digital Video Disc, or Digital Versatile Disc, was a joint effort in digital optical disc data storage by Sony, Philips, Panasonic and Toshiba. The DVD is a merging of two technologies, Multimedia Compact Disc (MMCD) and the the Super Density (SD) disc. A collection of the five largest computer technology companies got together and demanded a single disc format, so Sony, Philips, Panasonic and Toshiba combined the two formats and created the DVD. -
Google
A search engine originally invented by Sergey Brin and Larry Page that determined a website's relevance by the number of web pages that it had. It has since evolved into the de facto search engine on the Internet.