Computer History - 1993

Year	Event
1993	Fifty World Wide Web servers are known to exist as of January.
1993	Winsock is released January 1993.
1993	President 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.
1993	Microsoft releases Windows NT, Microsoft Office 4.0 and MS-DOS 6.0.
1993	Intel develops PPGA.
1993	Efficient Networks is established.
1993	Tandy sells its computer business to AST Research.
1993	Intel 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.
1993	The NCSA releases the Mosaic browser April 22, 1993.
1993	Microsoft and IBM introduce a PnP ISA.
1993	The 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.
1993	Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 was released July 27, 1993.
1993	CBL Data Recovery is founded.
1993	SigmaTel is founded.
1993	Supermicro is founded.
1993	Neomagic is founded.
1993	Wine begins to be developed.
1993	John Scully is named president of Apple Computers.
1993	NVIDIA is founded.
1993	Stellar Data Recovery is founded.
1993	IrDA is founded.
1993	InterNIC is established.
1993	FRISK software is founded.
1993	Tim Negris, a VP at Oracle Corporation coins the term Thin client.
1993	Funcom is founded.
1993	ACD Systems is founded.
1993	WinRAR is first released.
1993	PowerQuest is founded.
1993	The Internet experiences massive growth.
1993	GT Interactive Software is founded.
1993	Edgar F. Codd introduces the world to OLAP.
1993	ADSI is developed at Bellcore
1993	The 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.
1993	Developed by IBM, Motorola and Apple the PowerPC processor for the Apple Power Mac is introduced and later included in the Power Mac.
1993	VCD is introduced.
1993	The 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.
1993	Microsoft Windows 3.11, an update to Windows 3.1 is released December 31, 1993