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1990's Significant Computer Inventions

By karszkaradek

  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 but came out to the public in 1990. It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. The World Wide Web was invented to scientist and universities to be able to share information automatically.

  • SSD Module

    SSD Module
    The first commercial flash-based SSD was invented by SunDisk. I was invented to replace the spinning disks in a hard drive.

  • CompactFlash

    CompactFlash
    The CompactFlash was invented by SanDisk in 1994. It used flash memory to store a high capacity of data.

  • Java 1.0

    Java 1.0
    Java 1.0 was introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1995. It lets programs run on any computer system.

  • IBM Microdrive

    IBM Microdrive
    The micro drive is created by IBM in 1999. It was the smallest drive invented at the time and could contain more information than CompactFlash cards.