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IBM
IBM was first known for making clocks and time keeping and recording systems, eventually selling their Time Equipment Division to Simplex Time Recorder Company in 1958. -
Microsoft
Microsoft exceeded $1 billion in sales and became the first company to do so in 1990. -
Adobe Photoshop 1.0
Photoshop was developed in 1987 by the American brothers Thomas and John Knoll, who sold the distribution license to Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1988. ... Photoshop 1.0 was released on 19 February 1990 for Macintosh exclusively. -
ARPANET/ NSFNET
short for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, ARPANET or ARPAnet began development in 1966 by the United States ARPA. ARPANET was a Wide Area Network linking many Universities and research centers, was first to use packet switching, and was the beginning of what we consider the Internet today. ARPANET was created to make it easier for people to access computers, improve computer equipment, and to have a more effective communication method for the military. -
Major computer events in 1990
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, working with Robert Cailliau at CERN, proposed a 'hypertext' system, which is the first start of the Internet as we know it today. Later, Tim Berners-Lee successfully set up the first web server at info.cern.ch on December 25, 1990. What is widely considered to be the first 3D platform game, Alpha Waves, is released for the Amiga and Atari ST computers.
