Editing Timeline of historic inventions (section)

=== 1990s ===
* '''1990:''' The [[Neo Geo AES]] becomes the first video game system to launch that used [[Memory Cards]].
* '''1990:''' The first search engine invented was “[[Archie (search engine)|Archie]]”, created by Alan Emtage a student at McGill University in Montreal.
* '''1991:''' The first commercial flash-based [[solid-state drive]] is launched by [[SanDisk|SunDisk]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/solid-state-drive-module-demonstrated/|title=1991: Solid State Drive module demonstrated &#124; The Storage Engine &#124; Computer History Museum|website=www.computerhistory.org}}</ref>
* '''1991:''' The first [[sim card]] is developed by Munich smart-card maker Giesecke & Devrient.
* '''1993:''' IBM created the first mobile app with SIMON; it had 10 built-in apps from Email to Calendar.
* '''1994:''' [[IBM Simon]], the world's first smartphone, is developed by [[IBM]].
* '''1994:''' First generation of [[Bluetooth]] is developed by [[Ericsson Mobile]]. A form of data communication on short distances between electronic devices. 
* '''1994:''' A [[Tetris]] variant on the [[Hagenuk MT-2000]] device becomes the first mobile game.
* '''1995:''' [[DVD]] is an [[optical disc]] [[data storage device|storage]] format, invented and developed by [[Philips]], [[Sony]], [[Toshiba]], and [[Panasonic]] in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than [[compact disc]]s while having the same dimensions.
* '''1995:''' [[Match.com]] launches as the first dating site ever and is the number 1 most visited dating site in the US.
* '''1995:''' [[Waiter.com]] launches as the first [[online food ordering]] service.
* '''1996:''' The [[Ciena|Ciena Corporation]], in partnership with [[Sprint Corporation|Sprint]], deployed the first commercial dense [[Wavelength-division multiplexing|wavelength-division multiplexing system]], which created the massive capacity of the Internet.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Markoff|first=John|date=3 March 1997|title=Fiber-Optic Technology Draws Record Stock Value|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Unified Patents - Analytics Portal |url=https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-5504609-A |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=portal.unifiedpatents.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hecht |first=Jeff |title=City of light: the story of fiber optics |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-19-510818-7 |edition=Rev. and expanded ed., 1. paperback [ed.] |series=The Sloan technology series |location=Oxford}}</ref>
* '''1996:''' Mobile web was first commercially offered in Finland on the [[Nokia 9000 Communicator]] phone, and it was also the first phone with texting.
* '''1996:''' [[Bolt (website)|Bolt]] and [[SixDegrees.com|Six Degrees]] (1997) both become the first social media sites.
* '''1996:''' [[Myriad Genetics]] released the BRACAnalysis, the first commercial genetic test for assessing the risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.<ref>Cook-Deegan, Robert, and Annie Niehaus. [http://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4225052/ “After Myriad: Genetic Testing in the Wake of Recent Supreme Court Decisions about Gene Patents.”] Current Genetic Medicine Reports, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 11 Sept. 2014,</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Begley |first=Sharon |date=2016-11-29 |title=As revenue falls, a pioneer of cancer gene testing slams rivals with overblown claims |url=https://www.statnews.com/2016/11/29/brca-cancer-myriad-genetic-tests/ |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=STAT |language=en-US}}</ref>
* '''1997:''' The first weblog, a discussion or informational website, was created by [[Jorn Barger]], and later shortened to "blog" in 1999 by Peter Merholz.
* '''1998:''' The first portable [[MP3 player]] was released by SaeHan Information Systems.
* '''1998:'''  The search engine [[Google Search|Google]], is launched.<ref>Hall, Mark, and William L Hosch. [http://www.britannica.com/money/Google-Inc “Google: American Company.”] Encyclopædia Britannica, 31 Oct. 2024.</ref>
* '''1999:''' The first [[digital video recorder]] (DVR), the [[TiVo]], is launched by [[Xperi]].
* '''1999:''' [[NTT Docomo|NTT DoCoMo]] launches [[i-mode]], the first integrated [[app store|Online App store]] for mobile phones.