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English Programmer/scientist Tim Berners-Lee, along with Belgian Robert Cailliau develop a prototype of an information system where documents and other web resources are interlinked and accessible over the Internet. Today we know all this as "the Web", the place where everyone connects to all the information on the Internet. -
Intel releases its fifth-generation processor which is the company's first CPU. It featured several advances that made processor speeds of 60-200 MHz possible. This made "surfing" the web much faster than previous computers. -
Netscape under American entrepreneur Jim Clark, was the most popular internet browser, but soon began battling with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which was bundled into every copy of Windows '95 and beyond. Netscape was originally a great innovation, because it enabled access to information on web pages while they were still being loaded, rather than having to wait for the whole page to load while staring at a blank screen. -
Palm Inc., founded by Ed Colligan, Donna Dubinsky, and Jeff Hawkins, introduces Palm's first Personal Digital Assistant, which featured a Motorola microprocessor running at 16MHz and could be connected to a PC or Mac to sync. Palm Pilots made scheduling tasks, storing contacts, and writing notes on the go simple, and was an early precursor to smart phones. -
The BlackBerry, a wireless cellphone, developed by RIM (Research in Motion), capable of sending and receiving e-mail, SMS, phone calls, and even browse the Internet, was released. The beloved phone, the first "smart phone" used by many people, was so popular, it was nicknamed "crackberry".