What happened in 90's

[Paul]

[RICoder]

[Paul]

borg nanoprobes

[PDAFantast]

The first DVD draft is dated 1996.

[PDAFantast]

One thing that ppl forget is the CDROM.<br>The first draft document for CD-ROM is dated nov 1990

[Paul]

fine, ignore my witty post.

[PDAFantast]

Now I'm gonna be picky again... <br><br>Wolfenstein 3D came out 1992/93. Shortly afterwards in 1993/94, Doom came out... Then Quake in 95.. Quake2 appeared in 97... Halflife is using the Quake2 engine and appeared in early 98. 1999 Quake 3 came out...<br><br>I remember the first CounterStrike beta from 99... I still have it around if anyone wants it. <br><br>FireArms is though better, so that's what I'm playing right now <br>

[PDAFantast]

Paul, that was not witty.. That was male chauvinism from your side.

[jongjungbu]

Wasn't the internet born within the military in the late 60's?

[Dan East]

As Warren said, the internet is undoubtedly the biggest technical advance of the 90's. While the internet has existed for a few decades, it wasn't until the early nineties that anyone outside the government, universities or large companies could access the internet. Also, http and html were born, transforming the internet from ftp, telnet, usenet and gopher into what we point and click at today. If it wasn't for the internet, the majority of PC owners would never have bought their PC in the first place. If it weren't for all those PC sales (again, prompted by the internet), prices wouldn't have dropped, and technology wouldn't have grown (as fast). In the early nineties I was touring Loral defense in Akron, Ohio (they design missle guidance systems, etc. for the government). I told them I heard that a 14.4k modem was supposed to come out in the next year or so. Their computer experts laughed at me, saying that they couldn't even transfer data that fast from one end of the building to the other under controlled conditions. Now we can transfer data dozens of times faster than that without a wire at all. Why was that technology developed so fast? So people could access the internet with more bandwidth.<br><br>Dan East

[RICoder]

But I don't think you can really say that the internet was formed in the 90's.  But I see your point.<br><br>How about the Ion Drive?  Really a lot of crazy physics was born in the 90's.

[RICoder]

I.e.<br><br>Carbon Nanotubes<br>AntiMatter was proven<br>Black Holes were proven<br>Chirality was shown<br>The probablistic nature of subatomic particles was brought into focus<br><br>I could go on, but no one is listening.

[Dan East]

Did anyone say consumer GPS? How about Digital Satellite? Inkjet printers for $50? In the early nineties it cost $15 to print out a single color page at YSU, which at that time required hyper-expensive hardware (and the quality was probably less than that of today's 1200 DPI $50 printers).<br><br>Dan East

[Robotbeat]

HalfLife is based on Quake 1. A very heavily modified Quake 1, but still not Quake 2.<br><br>The Ion propulsion drive was in concept books before the 1990s, BTW, although it wasn't launched into space.<br><br>How about CD-R? (I mean, non-commercial).<br><br>Now, I am not a tree-hugger. Anyone who is around me at school knows that I am close to the opposite. However, U.S. nuclear arms testing was stopped by Bush (Jr.'s dad) in 1990 or 1991 or something like that.<br><br>What year was the Human Genome project (sort of) finished sequencing? Is it 2000 or 1999?<br><br>Dolly the sheep was cloned. I think Korea cloned human embryos in the 90s.<br><br>I believe the $.01 per MegaByte for hard disk storage barrier was broken in the 1990s.<br><br>Linux was born in the 1990s. Windows (Mac fans: yes, you're right, but I mean Microsoft Windows) was born. Windows is huge. Windows allowed the average Joe to access the Internet and take advantage of it. <br><br>Digital photography actually was realized (well, not fully, of course).<br><br>Laser-powered (I mean, the laser actually shoots it down) Scud missile defense was invented. <br><br>Blue LEDs were invented (this will probably be bigger than LCDs in coming years), along with actually green LEDs(not those greenish-yellow ones).<br><br>The Matrix. Well, that's not really that great, but it is a good movie...<br><br>Consumer 3d graphics. I mean real 3d graphics, with textures and real polygons (or not, like a consumer raytracer {P.O.V.}).<br><br>Video games left the arcade and entered the living room during the 1990s.

[RICoder]

hmph.<br>Ion Propulsion was not mad REAL LIFE until the 90's...but ok