20 computer technologies from the 1990s that are still used today - This is a list of the 20 tech products from the nineties that have had the most after-lasting impact in our digital connected lives of today. Probably the 1990s were also one of the most creative and defining decades for the computer industry where some of the fundamental tech still used today was defined.

1. 20 Computer
TECH from the
1990s that you
use today.
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This is a list of the 20
p r o d u c t s f r o m t h e
nineties that have had
the most after-lasting
impact in our digital
c o n n e c t e d l i v e s o f
today.
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2. #1 Color IPS LCD (1990)

3. #2 Java (1991)
The code once run everywhere concept was
pretty wild back in the early nineties - Java
eventually had to wait over a decade to become
the object oriented programming language of
choice for mobile platforms that it is today.
James Gosling

4. #3 Linux (1991)
By making Linux an open-source OS Linus
Trovalds eventually brought a UNIX like OS to the
masses, allowing this OS to be part of a wide
range of products from laptops to mobile phones.
Linus Trovalds

5. #4 ARM6 (1992)
Advanced RISC Machines became an independent
division of Acorn in 1990, and shortly after launched
ARM6 CPU powering mobile devices like the Newton,
beginning a journey that would lead her to the pole
position on semi-conductors for mobile devices.
Sophie Wilson
ARM inside

6. #5 SGI Indigo2 (1992)
For a long time SGI was the most powerful
desktop system for 3D computing as it allowed a
new generation of artists and scientists to
render and animate objects and better
understand the world in three dimensions.
James Clark

7. #6 Pentium/i586 (1992)
Pentium was the first superscalar CISC processor in
the market featuring a math co-processer. It gave
plenty of CPU power to the masses and prepared the
industry for a new generation of 3D applications and
multi-tasking OSes. Pentium line is still sold today.
Andy Grove

8. #7 Windows NT (1993)
Being the first commercial 32-bit multiprocessing
OS from Microsoft. Its code base has been part
of billions of devices running subsequent versions
of Windows OS created on top of NT’s technology
until Windows 7.
Bill Gates

9. #8 Netscape (1994)
Mosaic Netscape was the first commercial
browser, paving the way for subsequent
browsers and setting the foundations for
browsers still in use today. The internet would
never be the same again.
Marc
Andreessen

10. #9 Beowulf Clusters (1994)
Although parallel computers did not really make it,
parallel computing ended up being incorporated in
modern CPU designs. Beowulf clusters provided the
test bed for developing the parallel computing
software techniques now used in multi-core CPUs.
CJ
Hobgood.
Photo:
AJ
Neste/Surfing
America
Thomas Sterling

11. #10 PSION/Symbian (1994)
For being the first ARM powered PDA that
achieved world class recognition and for
featuring EPOC which eventually set the standard
for following mobile devices with Symbian, the
unrivalled mobile OS for most of the 2000s.

12. #11 Wi-Fi (~1995)
In a world dominated by cables, WiFi
brought wireless internetworking
connectivity to a larger audience and made
the access to Internet almost ubiquitous.

13. #12 3Dfx Voodoo (1995)
Until graphic accelerators came about, better
graphics meant buying a faster CPU, the 3Dfx
brought arcade quality graphics to the ordinary
PC and created an entire new industry of
Graphic Processing Units (GPUs).
S.Sellers

14. #13 ICQ (1996)
ICQ became the first Internet-wide instant
messaging service, many others have followed its
path, eventually merging text messaging and
instant messaging into a unified experience.

15. #14 Nintendo64 (1996)
When in 1996 Nintendo decided to bring
super computer power to the hands of 8
year old kids it set a videogames race that
still lives on today.
Hiroshi
Yamauchi

16. #15 56K modem (1997)
You might be reading this over your high-speed
Internet but, when V.92 modem came around
56Kbaud was blazing speed. Equivalent noise
reduction technologies are now used over fast
mobile connections.

17. #16 OS X/ OpenSTEP (1997)
OPENSTEP, was selected to be the basis for Apple's OSX, and
Apple purchased NeXT. Steve Jobs returned to Apple as interim
CEO, and later became CEO, shepherding the transformation of the
OPENSTEP into a system that would be adopted by Apple's primary
market of home users and creative professionals. The project was
later renamed to Mac OS X.

18. #17 Paypal (1998)
It’s probably fair to say that in what comes to
internet commerce there are two moments,
before Paypal (stone-age) and after Paypal which
effectively created means of electronic payment
over the internet, spurring global ecommerce.

19. #18 Rio PMP300 (1998)
Debuting in 1998, Diamond Multimedia's Rio PMP
300 was the first commercially successful personal
MP3 player. With just 32MB of internal memory it
stored less one full album CD but, it would end up
transforming the music industry as we know it today.
Chong Moon Lee

20. #19 Google (1999)
Still the world’s favorite search engine,
Google redefined web search. Are you
feeling lucky?
Larry Page, Sergey Brin

21. #20 Nokia 3310 (2000)
Nokia did not invent text messaging but the
NOKIA 3310 made SMS popular among youth in
Europe, and eventually everywhere else.
Jorma Ollila