Rusted root. Alice and chains. Nirvana. Worlds biggest mustache. Gaming. Cold War. 1990s Timeline - History Timeline of the 1990s. Jakie chan. 1990s. The 1990s, pronounced "nineteen-nineties" or abbreviated as "nineties", was a decade that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999.
Culturally, the 1990s was characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media. Movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the world to young people during the decade, aided by then-new technology such as cable television and the Internet. A combination of factors, including the continued mass mobilization of capital markets through neoliberalism, the thawing of the decades-long Cold War, the beginning of the widespread proliferation of new media such as the Internet from the middle of the decade onwards, increasing skepticism towards government, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to a realignment and reconsolidation of economic and political power across the world and within countries. Politics and wars[edit] The Worldwide Web. Inventions of the 90s. The 90s saw the invention of the internet and the rise of Microsoft.
The 90s saw the invention of genetic engineering, as well as cloning, and stem cell research. The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee. The digital answering machine invented. The smart pill invented. The pentium processor invented. PlayStation. The original console in the series, the PlayStation, was the first video game console to ship 100 million units, 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch.[2] Its successor, the PlayStation 2, was released in 2000.
The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling home console to date, having reached over 155 million units sold as of December 28, 2012.[3] Sony's next console, the PlayStation 3, was released in 2006 and has sold over 80 million consoles worldwide as of November 2013.[4] Sony's latest console, the PlayStation 4, was released in 2013, selling 1 million consoles in its first 24 hours on sale, becoming the fastest selling console in history.[5] 7th generation PlayStation products also use the XrossMediaBar, which is an award-winning graphical user interface.[14] A new touch screen-based user interface called LiveArea was launched for the PlayStation Vita, which integrates social networking elements into the interface.
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