1990s
13 sourced stories tagged 1990s.
- 1991 Linux was almost Freax
- 1991 The first website is still online
- 1992 Technical debt came from a finance app
- 1993 Debian is a couple's names
- 1993 The first Usenet 'spam' was a bug
- 1994 Cookies were built to prevent tracking
- 1995 Nobody agrees who named Java
- 1995 'A patchy server' is a pun, not the origin
- 1995 Wiki comes from an airport shuttle
- 1996 Bluetooth is a Viking king
- 1996 One cast destroyed Ariane 5
- 1997 JUnit was written on a plane
- 1999 A units mismatch lost a Mars orbiter