Major Advancements in the 90s

  • World Wide Web

    Tims Berners-Lee drafted what we know as the internet today for the purpose of scientists and researchers being able to share information at a faster, more efficient rate.
  • Photoshop

    Thomas and John Knoll sold this Photoshop to Adobe, who already had Illustrator under its belt, and was released in February of 1990. Adobe then proceeded to become a software known as a "killer app", which means that it was a software that also influenced the pricing and sales of hardware.
  • Text Messaging

    chriNeil Papsworth was the first to ever successfully execute a text message to a colleague, reading "merry christmas". The idea of instant messaging had existed since 1984, but this was the very first time that any sort of instant communication was successfully completed.