Technology In The 1990's

1990’s Technology When you were a kid, could you ever have imagined being able to pull out a small computer out of your pocket and being able to find the answer to nearly anything that you needed to know? The 90’s is an era that is well talked about due to the effect it had on music, fashion, sports, and many more. Sixty-one percent of adults in America own a cell phone. Thirty percent of adults own a mobile phone and only nine percent of adults do not own a phone at all and the number of people with a smartphone is increasing yearly . (ABC News “More Than Half of Americans Own Smartphones.”) The political, social, and historical events in the 90’s affected technology during the period in many ways. In the 1990’s, many tragic events …show more content…
The GPS (which stands for the global positioning system) was released to help people find directions while they were in their car. (Kallen ¨Technology, Medicine, and The Environment.¨) Microsoft Windows was released at the early year of 1990 to our surprise and in 1995, Java was released, which is one of the most common computer scripting languages to this day. Not only did Java get released in 1995, but Internet Explorer 2.0 was also released, a popular web browser and by 1997, DVD discs and players became commercially avaliable for the public’s use. In 1998, MP3 players were released to allow people to have the ability to download internet audio music without having to carry around one of those annoying CD players wherever they went, then, less than a year later, In 1999, Bluetooth was released, which was, a short range wireless standard used to share files to other phones or any other devices that were nearby. Google was released in 1999 also and I can safely say that is it the most used search engine in present time. (McGovern ¨Timeline: Digital Technology and Preservation.¨) Aside from the technology that was made to simply make the everyday life easier for everyone, In the 1990’s, doctors had the ability to do nuclear imaging and be able to treat heart attacks a lot more efficiency. (Kallen ¨Technology, Medicine, and The …show more content…
As viruses improve, so does the software to prevent them (Jenish “A ‘TERRORIST’ VIRUS”). Not only was anti-viral software new and improved in the 1990’s but researchers also came closer than ever to curing lethal diseases, solving the problems with infertility, and old age. For examples, the death rates from cancer began to lower due to researchers discovering new ways to attack those cancerous cells. By the 1990’s, doctors also improved on treating heart attacked with more efficiency than ever, resulting in less deaths. At first, the web was only used by scientists to allow them to send images with text. On August 1995, the potential for the world wide web was noticed by a large company when Netscape went public. (Kallen “Technology, Medicine, and The