Computer Science
- March 25 - Ward Cunningham loads the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, in Oregon.
- May 23 - The Java programming language is announced to the world.
- June 8 - Danish/Greenlandic/Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf releases the first version of the scripting language PHP, which in 15 years will be used as the server-side language on 75% of all Web servers.
- July - Amazon.com, incorporated a year earlier by Jeff Bezos in Washington (state) as an online bookstore, sells its first book, Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.
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