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Inventions of the 1990s

By zyanl
  • Adobe Photoshop

    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop was created in 1990 and has changed the photography and advertising industry forever. Some may say photoshop has grown into the most important photo editing tool of all time. Today, it is available for Mac, Window & Linux users.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    British computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee & Robert Cailliau followed through on a proposal to build a global information system in 1990. This global information system is based on a web of hyperlinked documents made up of multimedia such as graphics, audio, and video.
  • Text Messaging

    Text Messaging
    Created by Friedhelm Hillebrand in 1992, text messaging serves as a useful tool to people worldwide as over 6 billion texts are sent a day and 95% of texts sent are read within 3 minutes.
  • Sony PlayStation

    Sony PlayStation
    When the Sony released the PlayStation in 1994, it elevated the whole gaming industry because at the time, games were only thought to be played by children. Play station released games that adults would grow to love to this day and made the product an overall success.
  • Google

    Google
    Created as a research project by PhD students Larry page and Sergey Brin, Google acts as a internet search engine but revolutionized internet searching for users up to this day. The official company wasn't founded however until 1998.