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Photoshop - Thomas and John Knoll
Invented by brothers Thomas and John Knoll, Photoshop quickly became one of the most popular software systems by Adobe. It changed the way we edit photos and media, and it is still widely used today. -
JPEG - Joint Photographic Expert Group
A team of international organizations created this standard for digital images. Even today, JPEG, which is named after the group of inventors, the Joint Photographic Expert Group, is one of the most popular image formats. -
Apple's Newton - John Scully
Apple's first release in the handheld computer world was the Newton. It defined the future of handheld computers, regardless of the invention's poor performance. Production was discontinued in 1998. -
Playstation - Sony
Sony released the first Playstation in collaboration with Nintendo. This home gaming system sold more than 100,000,000 Playstations with their initial release, and these computers, although they have been updated, are used widely today. -
Compact Disk Rewritable (CD-RW) - Philips
The CD-RW was created to store data and transfer it from to computer to computer with ease. They were effective to a certain extent, because they could be overwritten about 1,000 times and were unable to read on some drives. DVD's eventually took over the niche that CD-RW's held.
