Technologies from 1990 to 1999

World Wide Web

1990

Creator: Tim Berners-Lee
Description: Interconnected pages accessible through web browsers. What most people consider "The Internet".

Linux

Sep 17, 1991

Creator: Linus Torvalds
Description: A collection of open source Unix-like operating systems that drive most of the Internet, from the fastest servers in the world down to the majority of mobile phones.

MP3

Dec 6, 1993

Creator: The Fraunhofer Society (mostly)
Description: An audio file format allowing for a dramatic reduction is file size.

USB

1996

Creator: Multiple
Description: An industry standard port that allows for the transfer of both data and power.

WiFi

Sep 21, 1997

Creator: A team led by Dr. John O'Sullivan
Description: Wireless local area network protocols based off of IEEE 802.11 standards.

Google

Sep 4, 1998

Creators: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Description: A corporation that started out with a focus on search which has since branched out to many different sectors of the tech market, both in software and hardware.