Innovations to Computers in the 1990's

  • The Death of DOS

    The Death of DOS
    Announced by Microsoft that DOS (Disk Operating System) would start to be phased out in favor for the Windows Operating System. All support for MS-DOS was ceased in 2001
  • First Website was Introduced

    First Website was Introduced
    The website Info.cern.ch was the first ever website published by Tim Berners-Lee. It was created as a part of the World Wide web Project itself and was hosted on a NeXT computer
  • Creation of the Mosaic Web Browser

    Creation of the Mosaic Web Browser
    This was known as the first browser capable of displaying images. Later on it became Netscape but at the time it was a big improvement to search engines
  • Creation of Windows 95

    Creation of Windows 95
    Windows at this time had been around for close to a decade. But in 1995 was when it is argued to have become the dominant Desktop environment. it was the first version of windows to be launched with Internet Explorer
  • Creation of Google

    Creation of Google
    as of September 4, 1998 Google Inc. was officially Founded.
    Arguably one of the most popular search engines to use in the world