| 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 |
Neomagic is founded. |
| 1993 |
Wine begins to be developed. |
| 1993 |
John Scully is named president of Apple Computers. |
| 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 |
WinRAR is first released. |
| 1993 |
PowerQuest is founded. |
| 1993 |
The Internet experiences massive growth. |
| 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 |
