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August 1991: WWW goes live; Linux Kernel announced; USSR collapsed; SNES English release; Terminator 2 was in the cinemas and Smells Like Teen Spirit had its ra
by junkbit 16y ago
August 1991: WWW goes live; Linux Kernel announced; USSR collapsed; SNES English release; Terminator 2 was in the cinemas and Smells Like Teen Spirit had its radio début. What a month
- wildmXranat 16y agoGoosebumps ^_^
- bobf 16y agoWhat a month indeed! The first two are really only interesting to the masses in hindsight though. I wonder how many interesting technological advances happen every month that we don't realize until years later.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoRobert Goddard's initial liquid fueled rocketry projects received generally negative publicity (a well-known NY Times editorial denounced the very idea that a rocket could operate outside the Earth's atmosphere, for example). The transistor initially received very minor media coverage. For years the laser was derided as a solution looking for a problem.
- balakk 16y agoWe didn't start the fire..
- die_sekte 16y agoAlso that war in the Balkans.
- Zecc 16y agoAccording to [Wikipedia][1], the Gulf War ended February 28th, when Pres. George W. declared a ceasefire (though Operation Desert Storm kept going until 1995). [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
- junkbit 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography
- joelhaus 16y agohttp://info.cern.ch/ http://info.cern.ch/ 1990 was a momentous year in world events. In February, Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. In April, the space shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. And in October, Germany was reunified. Then at the end of 1990, a revolution took place that changed the way we live today.