Editing 1994 in science (section)

==Computer science==
* January – [[Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)|Jerry Yang]] and [[David Filo]] create "Jerry's Guide to the [[World Wide Web]]", a hierarchically organised website, while studying at [[Stanford University]]; in April it is renamed [[Yahoo!]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Who is Jerry Yang?|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/who-is-jerry-yang-168111|website=NDTV|publisher=NDTV Convergence Limited|accessdate=2013-05-27|author=Agence France Presse|date=2012-01-18}}</ref>
* March 14 
** [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer, Inc.]] releases the [[Power Macintosh]], the first Macintosh computers to use the new [[PowerPC]] microprocessors.
** The [[Linux kernel]] version 1.0.0 is released after over two years of development.
* April 12 – Husband-and-wife law partners [[Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel]] post the first massive commercial [[Spamming|spam]] on [[Usenet]] in the United States.
* July 5 – [[Jeff Bezos]] launches [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]].
* c. August – [[Pizza Hut]] becomes the first restaurant to offer [[online food ordering]], in California.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pizza-hut_n_3894981|title=Pizza Hut Tells Twitter It Made The First Online Sale In 1994|website=HuffPost|access-date=2021-11-15|date=2013-09-09|archive-date=2019-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105115930/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pizza-hut_n_3894981|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/index.html?ver=293#1990s|title=Hobbes' Internet Timeline 25|website=Zakon.org|access-date=2018-08-14|archive-date=2020-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111235130/https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/index.html?ver=293#1990s|url-status=live}}</ref>
* October 1 – The [[World Wide Web Consortium]] is founded by [[Tim Berners-Lee]], becoming the main international [[standards organization]] for the [[World Wide Web]].
* c. November – [[Online service]] [[America Online]] purchases Booklink as a browser to offer its users a gateway to the [[World Wide Web]] for the first time. This marks the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average person in the U.S.<ref>{{cite news|title=America Online Buys 2 Internet Companies|date=1994-11-10|author=Lewis, Peter|work=[[New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/10/business/america-online-buys-2-internet-companies.html}}</ref> In 1996, AOL replaces Booklink with a browser based on Internet Explorer, allegedly in exchange for inclusion of AOL in Windows.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=[[CNET]]|url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/aol-exec-details-choosing-ie/|title=AOL exec details choosing IE|author=Hu, Jim|date=2002-01-02}}</ref>
* December 3 – [[Sony]] release the [[PlayStation]] [[History of video game consoles (fifth generation)|fifth generation]] home [[video game console]] in [[Japan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Business Development/Japan (1994~2004)|url=http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdatajpn2004_e.html|publisher=Sony|accessdate=2012-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703205240/http://scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdatajpn2004_e.html|archive-date=2011-07-03|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* December 15 – [[Netscape]] launch the [[Netscape Navigator]] [[web browser]], for which it creates [[HTTP Secure]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLvsis4_QhEC&pg=PA344|title=Embedded software|last=Walls|first=Colin|year=2005|page=344|publisher=Elsevier |accessdate=2012-01-28<!--DASHBot-->|isbn=9780750679541}}</ref>
* [[Leonard Adleman]] describes the experimental use of [[DNA]] as a computational system to solve a seven-node instance of the [[Hamiltonian path problem]], the first known instance of the successful use of DNA to compute an [[algorithm]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Leonard M.|last=Adleman|title=Molecular Computation of Solutions To Combinatorial Problems|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|volume=266|issue=5187|date=1994-11-11|pages=1021–4|doi=10.1126/science.7973651|pmid=7973651|jstor=2885489|bibcode = 1994Sci...266.1021A |citeseerx=10.1.1.54.2565}}</ref>
* [[Penguin Books]] offer [[Peter James (writer)|Peter James]]' novel ''Host'' on two [[floppy disk]]s as "the world's first electronic novel".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10380579.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206103002/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10380579.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 6, 2013|title=All Eight Roy Grace Novels by Peter James Now Available in e-Book Format in the United States: Author of "the world's first electronic novel" in 1994|website=prweb|date=2013-01-31|accessdate=2015-10-31}}</ref>