7 Important Inventions That Came From The 1990s

When people talk about the 1990s, most will discuss the monumental culture shifts around the world and the economic boom. But this was also the decade where some of your favorite technology products were born.

In history, this 90s is known as the decade where digital technology starts to fully evolve. Some of the products from the previous decades were replaced by better and newer ones. For example, the Walkman’s spotlight was stolen by portable CD players.

Today, we are going to look at some of the most significant inventions which came from the 1990s.

The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web was what has changed history and brought people around the world closer. The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by Sir Tim Berness-Lee. With this invention, the CERN computer scientist’s aim was to create a new method of sharing information that was much better and more effective.

Lee has always known that the rapidly developing Internet helped connect millions of computers. That was when the British scientist noticed that he could utilize hypertext-an emerging technology to share information.

By 1990, the web’s three founding technologies including HTML, HTTP, and URI had been successfully written by Lee. He then continued writing the first browser. The first webpage was introduced by the end of 1990. In 1991, people who are from Lee’s CERN community started to join this new community.

Google

How many times do you open Google a day? Or how many people go on Google to search for things each day? Google (Alphabet) has now been one of the most powerful and influential companies in the world. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the company’s founders, met at Stanford University in 1995.

The next year, the two wrote a search engine’s program that became what you use today. Google was officially founded in 1998.

The Nintendo 64

The Nintendo 64 is one of the world’s most loved home consoles. The Nintendo 64 was launched in mid-1996 in Japan. Later that year, it finally made its entrance on the US market. The console’s primary control was an analog stick. By providing users with the precise gaming experience, the Nintendo 64 was the industry’s huge breakthrough.

The DVD

In 1995, the DVD or Digital Video Disk was developed. In 1996, it was put on the market.

Along with this new technology came the Toshiba SD-3000 as well as the DVD player. The interesting fact was that no one has ever been credited as the inventor of the DVD as various technology companies came up with different variations.

Text messaging

1992 was the year when the first text message was sent. Former Sema Group Telecoms developer, Neil Papworth sent a Merry Christmas message to Vodafone director, Richard Jarvis.

Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop has become a widely-used tool around the world. With photoshop, content creators have had beautiful work and occasional great meme. The inventor was Thomas and John Knoll, the two brothers who were fascinated by how technology and art can be combined together.

The two developed and coded the program in the 1980s, Photoshop 1.0 was finally placed on the market after received investments from investors.

Linux

In 1991, when Linus Torvalds was a second-year college student, he started working on one of the world’s most significant open-source operating systems. The interesting thing is at that time, Torvalds’ intention was just building for his PC an operating system.