The 1990s THE INFORMATION AGE
HOW TECHNOLOGY & THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION CHANGED OUR SOCIETY
How has our world changed in the 1990s?
We started to become more connected and have instant access to our friends, family, news, entertainment, and information.
1990 - The World Wide Web and HTML language become the back bone of the emerging internet.
1990 - The Hubble Space Telespope is launched letting us see farther into space than ever before.
1990- CD's, and DVDs, came out replacing Records, VHS, & Cassettes.
1991 - AOL Comes out using dial up to connect users to the internet
1992 - Text Messaging starts
1993 - Bill Clinton Elected Presedent untill 2001
1994 and Continuing today firms like Amazon, AOL, and Yahoo are formed
1995 - Windows 95 is introduced by Microsoft
1995 - Internet Explorer comes out
Email keeps getting more and more popular
1995 - GPS come online, it was first only invented for the military
1996 - Google Starts to form revolutionizing how the web is searched and become much more user friendly
1996 - USB Ports Invented
1997 - Netflix Starts
1998 - MP3s come out replacing CD's
MPM Man - Asia Markets $400
PDAs were a thing which later morphed into to smart phones
How has technology changed our language?
New words and vocabulary were invented in the 1990s as the technology grew.
50 years ago if you would of told a friend:
TTYL, I'll BRB!
BTW can you email me your blog post of your cat LOL :)
They would have no idea what you said because the only thing around then were cats.
How about:
Boot Up
Browser
Emoticon
LOL
BRB
TTYL
OMG
Surfing the web
Screen Saver
What new words do we use today as the evolution of our language continues?