On March 2, 1993, The New York Times covered the growing competition between NEC and Cray Research in the supercomputer market — a careful, strategic rivalry that reflected broader tensions between American and Japanese technology industries at the dawn of parallel computing.
On April 5, 1993, Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem founded NVIDIA with one goal: build a dedicated chip for 3D graphics. Today, NVIDIA is one of the most valuable companies in the world, powering AI and blockchain alongside gaming.
On April 15, 1993, the Clinton administration launched the Clipper Chip project — a government-backed encryption module with a built-in backdoor. It faced immediate opposition from cryptographers and technology companies, and by 1996 the project was effectively dead.
Released on April 22, 1993, Mosaic was the browser that made the web mainstream. It introduced the graphical interface elements we now take for granted — Back and Forward buttons, clickable links, an address bar — and was the first browser to display images inline on web pages.
