1990

The 1990s

  • PhotoShop

    PhotoShop
    It was 1990
    Invention - Photo Shop
    Inventor - John and Thomas Knoll
    Photo shop was used for image editing in the movie The Abyss. Adobe saw potential, purchased a license for distribution and released in 1990.
  • WorldWideWeb

    WorldWideWeb
    The year was 1990
    Invention - The first web browser
    Inventor - Tim Berners-Lee
    The first web browser was called Worldwideweb, created at CERN and the name was later changed to Nexus. The name was changed to avoid confusion with actual World Wide Web.
  • PDF

    PDF
    In 1993
    Inventor - Adobe Systems
    Where would we be without PDF? PDF was created to keep the visual and layout of documents across multi-computer systems.
  • DVD

    DVD
    The year was 1995
    The invention is the DVD
    The DVD changed how we watched movies. No longer did we need to rewind before we returned our movie back to Block Buster. DVD are still in use today.
  • Wi-Fi

    Wi-Fi
    In 1999
    Wi-Fi
    To end out the decade in 1999 Wi-Fi came into our lives and some places used to charge for their Wi-Fi connectivity.