Computer History - 1993

YearEvent
1993Fifty World Wide Web servers are known to exist as of January.
1993Winsock is released January 1993.
1993President Bill Clinton puts the United States White House online with a World Wide Web page and E-mail address for the President, Vice President and first lady.
1993Microsoft releases Windows NT, Microsoft Office 4.0 and MS-DOS 6.0.
1993Intel develops PPGA.
1993Efficient Networks is established.
1993Tandy sells its computer business to AST Research.
1993Intel releases the Pentium Processor on March 22 1993. The processor is a 60 MHz processor, incorporates 3.2 million transistors and sells for $878.00.
1993The NCSA releases the Mosaic browser April 22, 1993.
1993Microsoft and IBM introduce a PnP ISA.
1993The first live streaming was done by the band Severe Tire Damage on June 24, 1993. The event was seen live in Australia and other locations over the Internet.
1993Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 was released July 27, 1993.
1993Neomagic is founded.
1993Wine begins to be developed.
1993John Scully is named president of Apple Computers.
1993IrDA is founded.
1993InterNIC is established.
1993FRISK software is founded.
1993Tim Negris, a VP at Oracle Corporation coins the term Thin client.
1993Funcom is founded.
1993PowerQuest is founded.
1993The Internet experiences massive growth.
1993ADSI is developed at Bellcore
1993The Environmental Protection Agency, along with 50 computer companies, establish Energy Star guidelines that aim to decrease the amount of power a PC uses when they are idle.
1993Developed by IBM, Motorola and Apple the PowerPC processor for the Apple Power Mac is introduced and later included in the Power Mac.
1993VCD is introduced.
1993The PC game DOOM by Id Software was released December 10, 1993. Today, DOOM is thought of as a turning point for first person shooters and for computer games in general.
1993 Broderbund releases the computer game Myst is released September 24, 1993 and later is honored for being one of the most popular, well known, and sold IBM compatible and Apple Macintosh title.
1993Microsoft Windows 3.11, an update to Windows 3.1 is released December 31, 1993

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