Genesis Decade #5 (1990 – 1999)
The 1990s
The World Wide Web Revolution, Dot-Com Boom & Digital Dawn — Connecting the planet through hypertext.
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10-Year Epoch Matrix (1990 – 1999)
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1990
365 Days
Nelson Mandela Released.
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1991
365 Days
PGP 1.0 Released.
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1992
366 Days
Cypherpunks Mailing List Formed.
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1993
365 Days
Cypherpunk Manifesto Published.
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1994
365 Days
Linux 1.0 Release.
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1995
365 Days
Java Programming Language Announced.
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1996
366 Days
Dolly the Sheep Born.
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1997
365 Days
Hashcash Proof-of-Work Proposed.
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1998
365 Days
Mozilla Open Source Announced.
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1999
365 Days
Euro Currency Introduced.
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Top 1990s Historic Landmarks
Curated moments from the 1990s Genesis Decade
✦ Nelson Mandela Released
Nelson Mandela Released
Nelson Mandela walks free after 27 years in prison, becoming a defining symbol of the end of apartheid and democratic transition in South Africa.
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✦ Hubble Space Telescope Launched
Hubble Space Telescope Launched
The Space Shuttle Discovery launches the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, starting a new era of optical astronomy.
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✦ Hubble First Light Image
Hubble First Light Image
The Hubble Space Telescope captures its first image of star cluster NGC 3532, demonstrating the beginning of its scientific observational operations.
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✦ Human Genome Project Launched
Human Genome Project Launched
The international Human Genome Project officially begins, starting the coordinated effort to map and sequence the entire human genome.
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✦ PGP 1.0 Released
PGP 1.0 Released
Phil Zimmermann releases PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) 1.0, making strong public-key cryptographic security accessible to the general public.
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✦ World Wide Web Public Launch
World Wide Web Public Launch
Sir Tim Berners-Lee describes his idea for a World Wide Web on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, launching the WWW as a publicly available service on the Internet.
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