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The compact disc, which debuted in the early 1980s but was not affordable until the early 1990s, makes the audiocassette and vinyl record less popular in most countries for listening to recorded music. DVDs become available in Japan in 1995 and the US in 1997, making video cassettes obsolete by the early 2000s.
Severe Tire Damage made the first live music performance on the Internet, using MBone technology. July 27, 1993 Microsoft released the Windows NT 3.1 operating system that supported 32-bit programs. December 10, 1993 Doom was released by id Software.
Adobe Flash technology reached the point of being able to make video players. As a result, YouTube, a website which allows uploading and viewing videos, was created. YouTube's popularity grew explosively and it was acquired by Google. Data storage prices continued to drop, going from approximately US$7 per GB in early 2000 to US$0.07 per GB in ...
The U.S. economy boomed in the enthusiasm for high-technology industries in the 1990s until the Nasdaq crashed as the dot-com bubble burst and the early 2000s recession marked the end of the sustained economic growth. In 2000, Republican George W. Bush was elected president in one of the closest elections in U.S. history.
The 1990s (often referred and shortened to as "the '90s" or "nineties") was the decade that began on 1 January 1990, and ended on 31 December 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s were culturally imagined as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the September 11 attacks in 2001. [1]
In the 90s and 2000s, many other highly mathematical tools were adapted for AI. These tools were applied to machine learning, perception and mobility. There was a widespread realization that many of the problems that AI needed to solve were already being worked on by researchers in fields like statistics , mathematics , electrical engineering ...
2000: America Online merges with Time Warner. While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate merger in history at the time. While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate ...
The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands"; shortened to the ' 00s and known as the aughts or noughties) was the decade that began on January 1, 2000, and ended on December 31, 2009. The early part of the decade saw the long-predicted breakthrough of economic giants in Asia, like India and China, which had double-digit growth during nearly the whole ...