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Severe Tire Damage made the first live music performance on the Internet, using MBone technology. July 27, 1993 Microsoft released the Windows NT 3.1 operating system that supported 32-bit programs. December 10, 1993 Doom was released by id Software.
The compact disc, which debuted in the early 1980s but was not affordable until the early 1990s, makes the audiocassette and vinyl record less popular in most countries for listening to recorded music. DVDs become available in Japan in 1995 and the US in 1997, making video cassettes obsolete by the early 2000s.
Adobe Flash technology reached the point of being able to make video players. As a result, YouTube, a website which allows uploading and viewing videos, was created. YouTube's popularity grew explosively and it was acquired by Google. Data storage prices continued to drop, going from approximately US$7 per GB in early 2000 to US$0.07 per GB in ...
Once a staple in home computing, especially in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the clunky Commodore 64 — also known as the C64 — remains popular among retro tech enthusiasts.
A 140 cm (56 in) DLP rear-projection TV Large-screen television technology (colloquially big-screen TV) developed rapidly in the late 1990s and 2000s.Prior to the development of thin-screen technologies, rear-projection television was standard for larger displays, and jumbotron, a non-projection video display technology, was used at stadiums and concerts.
Software Technology Research Group of Radboud University Nijmegen: none (unique language) 1987 Perl: Larry Wall: C, sed, awk, sh 1987 Oberon: Niklaus Wirth: Modula-2 1987 Turbo Basic: Robert 'Bob' Zale BASIC/Z 1988 Mathematica (Wolfram Language) Wolfram Research: none (unique language) 1988 Octave: MATLAB: 1988 Tcl: John Ousterhout: Awk, Lisp ...
By the early 2000s, digital cameras had eclipsed traditional film in popularity. Digital ink and paint was also invented in the late 1980s. Disney's CAPS system (created 1988) was used for a scene in 1989's The Little Mermaid and for all their animation films between 1990's The Rescuers Down Under and 2004's Home on the Range.
Cell phones of the early-1990s and earlier ones were very large, lacked extra features, and were used by only a few percent of the population of even the advanced nations. Only a few million people used online services in 1990, and the World Wide Web, which would have a significant impact on technology for many decades, had only just been invented.