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Tech Advancements Of The 90's

By Maricela325

  • Archie - First Search Engine

    Archie - First Search Engine
    The first search engine created was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal.
    The original intent of the name was "archives," but it was shortened to Archie. Archie helped solve this data scatter problem by combining a script-based data gatherer with a regular expression matcher for retrieving file names matching a user query.

  • Simon - Smart Cell Phone

    Simon - Smart Cell Phone
    people didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple released the iPhone.

  • Amazon

    Amazon
    In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, which launched the following year. Amazon started out as an online bookstore and then quickly diversified by adding other items, including DVDs, music, video games, electronics, and clothing.

  • DVD

    DVD
    Replacing VHS, DVD (short for “digital video disk”) was developed in 1995 and put on the market in 1996. And accompanying the DVD was the world’s first DVD player, the Toshiba SD-3000. No single company or person can be credited for the invention of the DVD -- variations were created by a number of different tech firms and they each came to agree on one format, thus avoiding a repeat of the VHS and Betamax competition.

  • Six Degrees - First Social Media Site

    Six Degrees - First Social Media Site
    The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. The company that developed the site, was founded by CEO Andrew Weinreich in May 1996[5] and was based in New York City. At its height, SixDegrees had around 100 employees, and the site had around 3,500,000 fully registered members.

  • Napster

    Napster
    Napster had a very different face when it first came into existence in 1999. The developers of the original Napster (brothers Shawn and John Fanning, along with Sean Parker) launched the service as a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network. The software application was easy to use with a free account, and it was specifically designed for sharing digital music files (in the MP3 format) across a Web-connected network.