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1990s
1990–1999
Windows wins the desktop, the web gets a browser, and everything starts dialing in.
- Photoshop 1.0: The Photograph Became a Set of NumbersEvery pixel could change. Knowing which ones should change was harder.8 min
- WorldWideWeb: A Link Was Something You Could FollowThe browser began as an editor, and the web began with documents.7 min
- Linux: A Working Kernel Invited More WorkThe first release made its limitations available alongside its source.8 min
- PGP: The Message Needed a Key, and the Key Needed a NameEncryption could protect a message without proving whose key you had.7 min
- Python: Readable Code Still Has Machinery InsideIndentation made the structure visible. Objects made the behavior worth understanding.8 min
- Visual Basic: The Form Was a Place to StartA button could be placed before its behavior was written.8 min
- Wolfenstein 3D: A Convincing World With Convenient RestrictionsA restricted floor plan made a moving first-person view practical.7 min
- Doom: The Wall Was Also a Way to Avoid WorkA nearby wall could make a distant room somebody else's problem.7 min
- NCSA Mosaic: A Page Became a Place for PicturesAn image in the page was still another file on the network.7 min
- Windows NT: An Address Needed an OwnerTwo programs could use the same address without sharing the same memory.7 min
- Netscape Navigator: The Browser Remembered a Small ThingA small token could connect several requests into one shopping trip.7 min
- Apache: Somebody Had to Answer the Next RequestReusable workers gave the next visitor somewhere to go.7 min
- Java: The Program Traveled With a ContractThe same instructions needed different machinery beneath them.8 min
- JavaScript: The Page Could Answer BackA button connected a document to a small piece of behavior.7 min
- MySQL: The Tables Didn't Have to Become One FileA useful total depended on the relationship between the rows.8 min
- PHP: The Browser Received the Finished PageA shared source file could become part of many complete responses.7 min
- Windows 95: The New Desktop Still Had Old ObligationsA new way to start work met an old rule about taking turns.8 min
- GIMP: A Picture Is Also a BufferAn image editor could invite other programs into the pixel work.7 min
- PostgreSQL: Which Version Did the Reader See?A reader needed a coherent view while the database kept changing.7 min
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