Computer Inventions of the 90's

Adobe Photoshop

Feb 19, 1990

Thomas and John Knoll noticed a lack of photo editing features on computers and decided to code their own.

Windows 3.0. 3.1 and 3.11

May 22, 1990

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.

WWW

Aug 6, 1991

World Wide Web was launched by Tim Berners-Lee, making finding information more accessible. This also allowed computers to connect with other computers.

Java and JavaScript

Dec 4, 1995

James Gosling of Sun Microsystems announced JavaScript and released it in Netscape 2.0B3. In the same year, they also released Java.

Google

Sep 4, 1998

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.