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Worldwide Web
Programmer and physicist Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for the Web, in March 1989, which was not approved. He proceeds anyway, with no support from his boss Robert Cailliau. By Christmas of 1990, he has prototyped the “WorldWideWeb” in just three months on an advanced NeXT computer. -
Power Book Series of Laptops
Apple's Macintosh Portable success leads to a complete redesign of Apple's line of portable computers. Three PowerBooks introduced featured a built-in trackball, internal floppy drive, and palm rests, which would become typical of the 1990s laptop design. It featured an active matrix display, faster processor, as well as a floating-point unit. -
Intel Paragon
Based on the Touchstone Delta computer Intel built at Caltech, the Paragon is a parallel supercomputer that uses 2,048 Intel i860 processors. More than one hundred Paragons were installed over the lifetime of the system. The Paragon at Caltech was named the fastest supercomputer in the world in 1992. -
The First Newton
Apple enters the handheld computer market with the Newton. Labeled a “Personal Data Assistant” by Apple President John Scully, the Newton featured many of the features that would define handheld computers in the following decades. -
BeBox
Founded by former Apple executive Jean Louis Gassée and a number of former Apple, NeXT and SUN employees release their only product – the BeBox. Using dual PowerPC 603 CPUs, and featuring a large variety of peripheral ports, the first devices were used for software development.
