Technology Inventions of the 1990s

  • Adobe Photoshop

    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe photoshop, created by Thomas and John Knoll, is now a tool for editing and creating different mediums of art and videos. Back then it was mainly used by professional photographers for basic editing.
  • Linux Operating System

    Linux Operating System
    Linus Torvalds was trying to build a new operating system for his Intel PC in his second year of college. Linux is now one of the most used operating systems, used by companies such as Google, Twitter, Facebook and Amazon.
  • Founding of Amazon

    Founding of Amazon
    Amazon started off as an online bookstore, and now sells about any item you can think of. They also act as an ecommerce platform if wanted.
  • Wifi was created

    Wifi was created
    Wifi was invented and first released to consumers in 1997 by a committee called 802.11. This made the internet a lot easier to use and far more accessible to people everywhere.
  • Google Was invented

    Google Was invented
    Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996. It was originally called Backrub before later being changed, and is now the most widely used search engine in the world.