1990’s Era Timeline Assignment

  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web

    Computer scientist and engineer, Tim Berners-Lee, created a world wide informations system that contained a variety of features on a network that is now the “Web”. The first website was created and published on December 20th, 1990. It is how we can socialize online and communicate using different types of forms like videos or even emails. This form of communication has since developed upon being created and will only continue to evolve.
  • MP3

    MP3

    Although the Mp3 was being created slowly in the late 80’s, it was initially released to the public in December of 1991 and was made by Karlheinz Brandenburg.
  • Text Messaging

    Text Messaging

    While, cellular phones have been around for over a decade since the 80’s, text messaging became a feature for people to use to communicate with one another. Neil Papworth was the first person to send a text message and was the developer of this new feature. As the phone evolved and became more mobile and affordable, the texting feature became the hottest feature. The first message he sent was “Merry Christmas” to a friend, Richard Jarvis.
  • Amazon

    Amazon

    Amazon was created and founded by who is now the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos. It was originally made for selling books and is now the become one of the most popular businesses of all time. They provide books, electronics, home, apparel, entertainment, and more items that is available online to buy. It is a company that focuses on e-commerce and is worldwide.
  • Google

    Google

    The founders of Google are Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They developed this this originally as a research project that eventually turned into a worldwide digital website/application. It is used to search anything and w on the internet to receive and share information.