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Thomas and John Knoll noticed a lack of photo editing features on computers and decided to code their own.
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Microsoft released a new generation of Windows, which allowed for the use of multiple applications at once as well as the use of a mouse. This gave more opportunity for multi-tasking.
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World Wide Web was launched by Tim Berners-Lee, making finding information more accessible. This also allowed computers to connect with other computers.
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James Gosling of Sun Microsystems announced JavaScript and released it in Netscape 2.0B3. In the same year, they also released Java.
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Founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, wrote a program for a search engine called Backrub. After Backrub's success, they registered for the name Google.com, which would become the world's largest search engine.
