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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990 and eventually released it to the general public in August of 1991. Ever since then it has been the primary tool that billions of people use to interact and communicate around the world, forever changing the way we live our day to day lives.
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MP3 is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the US and elsewhere. Eventually it become one of the most popular file formats for music. It was developed by many individuals including, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser, Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp and many others.
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Brendan Eich and a few other key contributors developed Java script. It's often abbreviated as JS, is a high-level programming language, often just-in-time compiled, and multi-paradigm. It has curly-bracket syntax, dynamic typing, prototype-based object-orientation, and first-class functions.
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Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered domain name Google.com in 1997. They went on to develop what would be the world’s largest search engine of all time! Google was officially incorporated in September of 1998.
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The first was developed and released in 1999 by IBM, with a capacity of 170 MB. IBM sold its disk drive division, including the Microdrive trademark, to Hitachi in 2002.
