1995
• The TrendSetter is Creo’s first thermal CtP system. It is probably the most successful of all the 42 CtP systems that are shown at Drupa that year. Many of those prototypes don’t even make it to the market.
• Microsoft introduces Windows 95 and sells 1 million copies within 4 days. I am one of those who buy the software the very first day. Much to my surprise, it installs without a problem. It is the first Microsoft operating system that I have fond memories of.
• Apple allows selected other vendors such as Power Computing (shown below), Motorola and UMAX to market Macintosh clones. After his return to Apple, Steve Jobs cancels this policy in 1998.
• 1995 is the year of new connectivity standards: Apple launches Firewire (IEE 1394 – connector shown below) and a group of industry vendors release the specs for the Universal Serial Bus (USB). The speed of Ethernet goes up from 10 Mb/s to 100 Mb/s with the release of the Fast Ethernet specifications.
• In the USA the number of printing companies reaches 62,000 – the highest number that will ever be reached.
• The Tektronix Phaser 480 is a typical example of the dye-sublimation proofprinters that several companies sell. Tektronix is later acquired by Xerox.
• The very first post appears on Craigslist. Within a few years, this web service has an enormous impact on US newspapers because they lose a major part of their classified ads income to the site.
• Paper prices go through the roof in what some people labelled the ‘Great Paper Shortage of 1995′.
• Fighting escalates in Bosnia and Croatia.
• Eight people die in a nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway.
• Timothy McVeigh uses a car bomb to blow up an Oklahoma City federal building.
• A UK team creates the world’s first cloned sheep.
• The dot-com boom starts.
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