1989 – CorelDraw, Linotype & Lithos
• German company Helios for the first time shows EtherShare, a Unix based file and print server to which they later add OPI and color management features. Running on a Sun system, such as the SparcStation 5, this is the workhorse of many prepress companies who love the fact that such a system only needs an occasional reboot every year or so.
• CorelDRAW 1.0, a vector based drawing application, ships for Windows 3.1. With later releases, Corel introduces the concept of graphic suites.
• Linotype AG acquires Hell GmbH from Siemens.
• American typeface designer Carol Twombly designs Lithos for Adobe.
• ColorStudio, a color image-editing program from Letraset, is technically superior to Photoshop but twice as expensive at $1,995. Sales don’t live up to expectations and Letraset eventually abandons the software market.
• Ayatollah Khomeini sentences author Salman Rushdie to death.
• The Berlin Wall is torn down.
• The tanker Exxon Valdez leaks 11 million gallons of crude oil near Alaska.
• Students protest on Tienanmen Square in Beijing (China).
• Tim Berners-Lee develops the first web server and browser.