Editing Timeline of computing 1990–1999 (section)

==1993==
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| January 23
| [[NCSA Mosaic|Mosaic]] graphical web browser launched.<ref name=Kirschenbaum2013>{{citation |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/07/30/_10_most_influential_software_programs_of_all_time_from_sabre_to_minecraft.html |last=Kirschenbaum |first=Matthew |date=July 2013 |title=10 Most Influential Software Programs Ever |work= [[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |location=USA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Stewart |first=William |title=Mosaic – The First Global Web Browser |url=http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_mosaic.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702183017/http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_mosaic.htm |archive-date=2 July 2007 |access-date=22 February 2011}}</ref>
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| 1993
| Commercial providers were allowed to sell Internet connections to individuals. Many people began using the Internet, especially with the new interface provided by the World-Wide Web (see 1989) and [[Mosaic (web browser)|NCSA Mosaic]].
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| 1993
| Release of the first version of [[Eloquens (software)|ELOQUENS]], a [[text-to-speech]] commercial software, from [[CSELT]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Balestri |first1=Marcello |title=3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1993) |last2=Lazzaretto |first2=Stefano |last3=Salza |first3=Pier Luigi |last4=Sandri |first4=Stefano |date=22 September 1993 |pages=2091–2094 |chapter=The CSELT system for Italian text-to-speech synthesis |doi=10.21437/Eurospeech.1993-468 |s2cid=42744136}}</ref>
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| 1993
| The first web magazine, ''The Virtual Journal'', is published but fails commercially.
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| 1993
| [[Novell]] purchases [[Digital Research]]; [[DR DOS]] becomes Novell DOS.
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| 1993
| The [[MP3]] file format was published. This sound format later became the most common standard for music on PCs and later [[digital audio player]]s.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Proceedings of the first ACM international conference on Multimedia - MULTIMEDIA '93 |vauthors=Patel K, Smith BC, Rowe LA |date=1993-09-01 |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |isbn=978-0-89791-596-0 |series=ACM Multimedia |location=New York City |pages=75–82 |chapter=Performance of a software MPEG video decoder |doi=10.1145/166266.166274 |access-date=15 December 2021 |chapter-url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/166266.166274 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215125939/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/166266.166274 |archive-date=15 December 2021 |url-status=live |s2cid=3773268}} Reference 3 in the paper is to Committee Draft of Standard ISO/IEC 11172, December 6, 1991.</ref>
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| March
| Microsoft introduces MS-DOS 6.0, including [[DoubleSpace]] disk compression.
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| March 22
| Intel releases the [[P5 (microarchitecture)|P5]]-based [[Pentium]] processor, 60 and 66&nbsp;MHz versions. It has over 3.1 million transistors and can achieve up to 100 MIPS. [[John H. Crawford]] co-managed the design of the P5;<ref>p. 54, "Intel Turns 35: Now What?", David L. Margulius, ''InfoWorld'', July 21, 2003, {{ISSN|0199-6649}}.</ref> Donald Alpert managed the architectural team;<ref>p. 21, "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=216745 Architecture of the Pentium microprocessor]", D. Alpert and D. Avnon, ''IEEE Micro'', '''13''', #3 (June 1993), pp. 11–21, {{doi|10.1109/40.216745}}.</ref> and [[Vinod K. Dham]] headed the P5 group.<ref>p. 90, "Inside Intel", ''Business Week'', #3268, June 1, 1992.</ref>
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| May
| [[Multimedia PC#MPC Level 2|MPC Level 2]] specification introduced (see November 1990). This was designed to allow playback of a 15 frames per second video in a 320x240 pixel window. The key difference from MPC level 1 is the requirement of a CD-ROM drive capable of 300&nbsp;kB/s (double speed). Products are also required to be tested by the MPC council, making MPC Level 2 compatibility a stamp of certification.
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| June
| [[Severe Tire Damage (band)|Severe Tire Damage]] made the first live music performance on the Internet, using [[MBone]] technology.
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| July 27
| Microsoft released the [[Windows NT 3.1]] operating system that supported 32-bit programs.
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| December 10
| ''[[Doom (1993 video game)|Doom]]'' was released by [[id Software]].<br />The [[PC compatible|PC]] began to be considered as a serious games-playing machine, reinforced by the earlier release in November of ''[[Sam & Max Hit the Road]]''.
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