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The World Wide Web
British scientist, Tim Berners-Lee along with Robert Cailliau invent the World Wide Web (WWW). With information accessible from across the world, this begins a new era of technology where the world is connected through the web. -
Snagit
Snagit is the first program to screenshot and video capture for Windows and Mac. While relatively less important compared to most computing achievements, screen capture is taken for granted in the modern day with so many screen recording programs on computers or image capturing done with a single press of a button on mobile devices. -
Windows 95
A newly improved operating system by Microsoft which introduced the start menu which many home computers now use. Being the first commercialized operating system, it introduced regular people to the computer world. -
Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov
The IBM developed chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov signaling to the world the rise of AI. Deep Blue's impact enabled the world to explore what AI is capable of and if it can surpass the human intellect. -
Nvidia unveils the GeForce 256
Having popularized GPU's (Graphics processing unit) by introducing the GeForce 256, the "first consumer GPU", it signified the progress of graphics and revealed the potential of future graphics and video in computers.