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Brothers John and Thomas Knoll created it, but Adobe bought a license and released it in February 1990. Adobe Photoshop is now widely used in digital arts. It has even become a verb, such as when an altered photo is said to have been "photoshopped."
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In December 1993, id Software released the first-person shooter video game Doom. Its graphic violence and demonic imagery caused controversy and contributed to the moral panic of the time.
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Microsoft released the Windows 95 operating system to the general public in August 1995. This version of Windows, which introduced the familiar taskbar and Start menu button, was the most-installed operating system within two years of its release.
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IBM's Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov over the course of six games in May 1997. This was actually a rematch as Kasparov had defeated the computer the previous year.
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The Matrix, a cyberpunk action film about a programmer who becomes a digital messiah, was released in March 1999. It used many computer-generated effects and popularized the "bullet time" visual effect.
