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Pac-man
Pac-man, a very important milestone in the development in computed games, was made by Namco. The game was designed by Toru Iwatani. Pac-Man was a game about collecting pellets and avoiding ghosts.
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IBM announces Personal Computer
IBM announces its Open Architecture IBM Personal Computer, which becomes the basis for most of the personal computers to come after it. The lead developer was Philip Don Estridge. This was a computer which could have programs changed or new ones put on.
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First .com
The first .com domain was claimed by a company called "Symbolics". Their website was symbolics.com. This might not be an invention in the literal sense, but the ".com" became so common place and is used for almost all websites even up until now.
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Adobe Photoshop Created (not released)
Adobe photoshop was created as a convenient way of editing pictures that are on a computer, and thusly not able to be changed by hand. It was made by John and Thomas Knoll. It was made in 1988 (specific dates are unknown), but did not release until 1990.
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World Wide Web Invented
Tim Berners-Lee, an employee at CERN, invents the world wide web as a way to make information seamlessly acessable from different types of systems.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#History
