21 born · 3 peaked · 1 died
Born in 1993 21
- ☠AOL CDA free trial disc that arrived in every magazine, cereal box and letterbox on Earth. At o…
- ●AutocorrectThe software that fixes your typos and, since the iPhone of 2007, replaces the word you m…
- ◐BRBBe right back. Fading because nobody is ever away, only slower to reply.
- ↺DoomThe first-person shooter that defined the phrase, uploaded as shareware to a university F…
- ☠EncartaMicrosoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, launched in March 1993, which for a decade was where eve…
- ▲Eternal SeptemberThe month AOL opened Usenet to everyone and the newcomers never stopped arriving. Thirty-…
- ●Fergie TimeStoppage time that seems to stretch when a big club needs a goal, named for Alex Ferguson…
- ☠Information SuperhighwayA metaphor for the internet used exclusively by people who had not been on it. Died the m…
- ●Jensen HuangNvidia's co-founder and only chief executive, born in Taiwan, who washed dishes at Denny'…
- ◐LAN PartyA gathering of people, their desktop computers, monitors, cables and a case of energy dri…
- ▲MosaicThe browser from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, written by Marc And…
- ▲MystA silent island of pre-rendered stills and puzzles, made by two brothers in Washington st…
- ▲NetiquetteThe idea that there were manners online and that they could be taught. Filed as a fossil …
- ●NvidiaThe graphics-card company founded at a Denny's in 1993 that spent twenty years making gam…
- ●RoguelikeA game like Rogue (1980): procedurally generated, turn-based, and finished by dying and s…
- ●Sock PuppetA second account pretending to be a stranger who agrees with you. A wooden practice that …
- ●SpamUnwanted messages in bulk. One of the very few internet words to enter the language, the …
- ●Synthetic DataTraining data that a model made up: textbook-style explanations written by GPT-4 to train…
- ●The SingularityThe hypothetical point at which machine intelligence improves itself faster than humans c…
- ▲Trojan Room Coffee PotA filter coffee machine in the Trojan Room of the Cambridge computer lab, filmed by a cam…
- ▲You've Got MailAn announcement that someone had written to you, spoken aloud by the computer. Became a r…
Peaked in 1993 3
- ▲Blast ProcessingSega's 1992 marketing term for a feature of the Genesis that made it, according to the ad…
- ▲GopherMenus of text nested in menus of text, one year older than the web and considerably tidie…
- ↺Mortal KombatDigitised actors, a spine-ripping fatality and a moral panic. The 1992 arcade game's home…