Computer Inventions of the 1990s

By jeaMCC
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    1990s Computer Tech

  • 1st image editing software, Adobe Photoshop, comes to computers

    The software was created by Thomas and John Knoll. Although created in 1982, the inventors struggled to market the product, that is until Adobe purchased the software and made it their own.

  • Linux, an OS, was created by Linus Torvalds

    The major change that Linux brought about was that this OS was open source. This made it possible for the software to modified by anyone with the source code. This change gave way to other tech like Google and FB.

  • 1st Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) device released

    The PDA was called the Newton MessagePad and was developed by Apple. This was an important invention as its creation would give rise to iPhones.

  • USB (Universal Serial Bus) was released to public

    Created by Ajay V. Bhatt in 1995, but the tech was not fully integrated until the following year. This creation allowed for a wider range of peripheral devices (i.e. storage, keyboards, etcs.,) to be connected to computers. The invention had a huge impact on the speed of file transfers, the amount of devices that could be powered and connected to computers.

  • Google was invented by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

    The tech was built to be a search engine for pages on the internet. Its effects seem never ending as Google is arguable used daily, in some aspect, of everyone's life.