ICT (90s)

Germany becomes football world champion in the summer of 1990. The national team won the final in Rome 1-0 against Argentina.

After the fall of the Wall in 1989, the two German states were reunified on October 3, 1990

Windows 3.1 appears and becomes the first truly successful Microsoft operating system...

The commercial internet (WWW) starts in Germany and that especially thanks to the browser Mosaic who was introduced in 1993. He is the ancestor of the later coming Netscape Navigator.

Intel introduces the first x86 processor with a name. The Pentium gives the x86 competitor a lot of trouble, even though it initially contains a serious calculation error (FDIV bug).

1993 id-Software presents "Doom" which leaded over night to a high popularity of firt person shooters. In Germany new zip codes where introduced.

Commodore is unfortunately dead. Also in Germany, Commodore, a success story of the 80s, has to declare itself bancrupt.

In 1995 the game Descent brings for the first time a full freedom of movement to the computer.

Windows 95 was released and breaks all the sales records.