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Thomas and John Knoll developed the technology and sold it to Adobe. Adobe Photoshop played a big role in early online culture and has shaped many things today. Now photo and video editing is everywhere and is completely unavoidable. -
Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert, German developers, began this project of developing messaging in 1984. The first text wasn't sent until much later. We now use texting for everything- fast communication, group communication, and companies even use it to send updates and notices. Some computers can now use text messages. -
Tim Berners Lee released the code for the browser that was the first worldwide web. This is perhaps one of the biggest things that has happened to technology, as it is now a huge system where pretty much everything is accessible. -
The first DVDs were released in the United States. David Paul Gregg and James Russel created the technology that isn't as commonly used today but was huge then. To be able to record and play things from this disc was huge, and even some computers had ways to play them. -
Rydbeck began working "short link" or wireless technology in Lund, Sweden in 1989. It was launched in 1998. Now many people use Bluetooth headphones, they can link to each other's phones, and even cars are using Bluetooth for safe messaging. Bluetooth can also be used by computers to link to each other as well as phones and headphones.