As a result of a successful thursday thirteen last week on inventions of the 80′s we jump forward a decade to the 90′s for a look at the 13 best things to come out of that decade.
So put on your grunge clothing and sit tight.
1. 1990 – The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
2. 1992 – First text message sent, “Merry Christmas”.
3. 1993 - The Pentium processor invented.
4. 1995 – The Java computer language invented.
5. 1995 – DVD’s invented… Finally sold shares in VHS and Beta.
6. 1998 - Viagra invented. No stiff competition there, eh?
7. 1996 – Scientists in Scotland cloned a sheep – called her Dolly. Still waiting for dinosaurs.
8. 1999 – Napster invented and radically changed the file-sharing industry forever.
9. 1996 - USB’s introduced
10. 1997 - Wifi standard released. Now, it’s everywhere.
11. 1996 - Tamagotchi’s
12. 1990′s grunge music – Pearl Jam, lice in Chains, Nirvana, STP, Soundgarden
13. Stone Temple Pilots – 1992 “Core”. 1994 “Purple”. 1996, “Tiny music….Songs From The Vatican Giftshop”. 1999 “No. 4″
Other things the 90′s are “famous” for;
Backstreet Boys
N’Sync
Pagers
Baseball caps being worn everywhere
Beanie Babies
Harry Potter
What about the 90′s means the most to you?
