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History Of Computers In The 90's

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  • Adobe Photoshop

    Adobe Photoshop
    Brothers Thomas and John Knoll noticed the lack of photo-editing features on computers and decided to code some of their own. After years of development in the late 1980s, the Knoll brothers sought investors and eventually caught the attention of Adobe. With Adobe’s investment and help from its staff, Photoshop 1.0 was put on the market in February 1990.
    (https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/295683#1)

  • Linux

    Linux
    Created by Linus Torvalds in his second year at the University of Helsinki. Linux is the best-known and most-used open source operating system. As an operating system, Linux is software that sits underneath all of the other software on a computer, receiving requests from those programs and relaying these requests to the computer’s hardware.
    (https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/295683#2)
    (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux)
    (https://opensource.com/resources/linux)

  • Text Messaging

    Text Messaging
    SMS messaging was used for the first time on 3 December 1992, when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group in the UK used a personal computer to send the text message "Merry Christmas" via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis, who was at a party in Newbury, Berkshire, which had been organized to celebrate the event.
    (https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/295683#3)

  • Nintendo 64

    Nintendo 64
    Developed and marketed by Nintendo.Became the first home console to feature an analog stick as its primary control. The console was a major breakthrough in the gaming industry, allowing users to aim with precision and control like never before.
    (https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/295683#6)

  • Google

    Google
    Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. The project initially involved an unofficial "third founder", Scott Hassan,who wrote much of the code for the original Google Search engine, but he left before Google was officially founded as a company. Google would become the world’s largest search engine of all time
    (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#History)