25 years ago today, Nvidia released its first-ever GeForce GPU, the Nvidia GeForce 256. Despite the existence of other video cards at the time, this was the first desktop card to be advertised as a "GPU" — a graphics processing unit. Where there were half a dozen different companies (or more) making video card hardware at the time, many have since been acquired by AMD or Nvidia. Nvidia is celebrating the anniversary with several tie-ins, including a promotional YouTube video, a blog post, and even Nvidia-green popcorn.
