Editing 1995 in science (section)

==Computer science==
* January 27 – [[Prodigy (online service)]] offers access to the [[World Wide Web]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/31/business/company-news-prodigy-sees-quick-growth-from-internet-web-service.html|title = COMPANY NEWS; Prodigy Sees Quick Growth from Internet Web Service|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 31 January 1995|last1 = Lewis|first1 = Peter H.}}</ref>
* March 1 – The first [[Yahoo! Search]] interface is founded.
* March 25 – [[Ward Cunningham]] loads the first [[wiki]] software, [[WikiWikiWeb]], in [[Oregon]].
* April 30 – The United States government stops funding the [[NSFNET]], making the [[Internet]] a wholly privatized system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/nsfnet.htm|title=Cybertelecom :: NSFNET|work=cybertelecom.org}}</ref>
* May 23 – The [[Java (programming language)|Java programming language]] is announced to the world.
* June 8 – [[Danish people|Danish]]/[[Greenland]]ic/[[Canadians|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 server]]s.<ref>{{cite newsgroup|title=Announce: Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools)|last=Lerdorf|first=Rasmus|date=1995-06-08|newsgroup=comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi|url=https://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi/msg/cc7d43454d64d133|accessdate=2012-06-08}}</ref>
* July 16 – [[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|Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-corporateTimeline|title=History & Timeline|accessdate=2012-07-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Ann|last=Byers|year=2006|title=Jeff Bezos: the founder of Amazon.com|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nz43wixr2IcC&pg=PA47|pages=46–47|isbn=9781404207172}}</ref>
* November 22 – ''[[Toy Story]]'', the first feature film created using only [[computer-generated imagery]], is released in theaters in the United States.
* [[Andy Harter]] and colleagues devise [[Virtual Network Computing]].