The Decade of the 1990’s 

The 1990’s was characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media, which continued into the 2000’s. Movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the world to young people during the decade, aided by then-new technology such as cable television and the World Wide Web. In the absence of world communism which collapsed in the first two years of the decade the 1990’s was politically defined by a movement towards the right wing, including increase in support for far right parties in Europe and cuts in social spending in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK. The United States also saw a massive revival in the use of the death penalty in the 1990s, which reversed in the early 21st century. A combination of factors, including the continued mass mobilization of capital markets through neoliberalism, the thawing of the decades-long Cold War, the beginning of the widespread proliferation of new media such as the Internet from the middle of the decade onwards, increasing skepticism towards government, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to a realignment and reconsolidation of economic and political power across the world and within countries. The dot-com bubble of 1997–2000 brought wealth to some entrepreneurs before its crash between 2000 and 2001. The 1990’s saw extreme advances in technology, with the World Wide Web, the first gene therapy trial and the first designer babies all emerging in 1990 and being improved and built upon throughout the decade. Read more about the 90’s on Wikipedia.

Graduates of the 90’s who are no longer with us…

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