Definitions for 1990s
1990s

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1. nineties, 1990snoun

   the decade from 1990 to 1999

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1. 1990snoun

   The decade from 1990 to 1999. Also known as the '90s.

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1. 1990s

   The 1990s (pronounced "nineteen-nineties", shortened to "the '90s" and often referred to as simply "the nineties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s are culturally imagined by many as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the Global War on Terror ("GWOT"), which included the September 11 attacks, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War. The dissolution of the Soviet Union that marked a retreat of Russian imperialism and the beginning of a multipolar world. Anti-Americanism remained in countries formerly occupied by the USSR. Russia was in economic chaos due to neoliberal free market reforms, under advice of Western economists. For most people, the millennium ended with an incorrect warning about the Y2K bug. In the United States and Canada, the decade saw greater attention to multiculturalism as well as the advance of alternative media. In the built environment the McMansion and schlock block version of postmodern architecture remained strong throughout the decade. Public education about safe sex curbed the spread of the HIV virus in wealthy countries. Generation X young people often bonded over musical tastes without needing to be part of an exclusive youth subculture. Humor in television and film was often marked by ironic self-reference mixed with popular culture references, in the manner of television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Alternative music movements like grunge, Eurodance, and hip-hop, became popular with young adults worldwide, aided by the rise in popularity of tiered pricing cable television, and the internet. New music genres such as DnB, post-rock, happy hardcore, denpa, and trance emerged in the 1990s. The computer game industry began to boom again, rivalling the music and movie markets. Neverwinter Nights was the first multiplayer online role-playing game to display graphics and ran from 1991 to 1997 on AOL. Video game popularity exploded due to the development of CD-ROM supported 3DCG on platforms such as PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and PCs. The 1990s saw advances in technology, with the World Wide Web, the evolution of the Pentium microprocessor in accordance with Moore's Law, rechargable lithium-ion batteries, the first gene therapy trial, and cloning all emerging and being improved upon throughout the decade. The Human Genome Project was formally launched in 1990. Building of the Large Hadron Collider commenced in 1998. In 1998, Nasdaq (established 1971) became the first stock market in the United States to trade online, using the slogan "the stock market for the next hundred years".Environmentalism was divided between left-wing green politics, primary industry sponsored environmentalist front organizations and a more business-oriented approach to the regulation of carbon footprint of businesses. As more businesses were using information technology the idea of the paperless office was becoming a realistic long-term goal. The matter of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) also known as Forever Chemicals was also an ongoing concern. In 1995, the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) called for global action to be taken on these "chemical substances that persist in the environment, bio-accumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing adverse effects to human health and the environment". The Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS) and the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) then prepared an assessment of the 12 worst chemical substances, leading to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants of 2001. A combination of factors led to a realignment and consolidation of economic and political power across the world, such as the continued mass-mobilization of capital markets through neoliberalism, the end of the Cold War caused by the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Network cultures were enhanced by the widespread proliferation of new media such as the internet, and a new ability to self-publish web pages and make positive connections on a wide variety of professional, political and hobby topics. The new medium was dubbed the information superhighway and soon used by the so called 'tech savvy'. The digital divide was immediate with access to the World Wide Web limited to those who could afford it and knew how to operate a home or business computer. The internet also provided a degree of anonymity for individuals skeptical of the government. Online anonymity and the semi-impersonal nature of communication by email and chat rooms led to the words troll and netiquette enter the English language. Online scammers and sex offenders scared many people off the idea of home internet, and traditional mass media performed strongly. Surfing the web was a pastime frustrated by slow internet speeds and the WWW was nicknamed the World Wide Wait. However, mainstream internet users were optimistic about its benefits particularly th

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1. 1990s

   The 1990s is a decade that refers to the period between January 1, 1990, and December 31, 1999. It is commonly known as the last decade of the 20th century, marked by significant cultural, technological, and political changes worldwide.

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1. 1990s

   The 1990s, pronounced and also known as "the Nineteen-Nineties" or abbreviated as "the Nineties" or "the '90s", was a decade that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. It was the 10th and last decade of the 20th century and the 100th and last decade of the 2nd millennium. More people were born in the 1990s than in any decade in history. Culturally speaking the decade was characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media. 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 Internet. A combination of factors, including the mass mobilization of capital markets through neoliberalism, the beginning of the widespread proliferation of new media such as the Internet, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to a realignment and reconsolidation of economic and political power across the world, and within countries. Income inequality among countries in the world rose sharply between the 1980s and the mid-1990s, before levelling off and then falling after 2000. New ethnic conflicts emerged in Africa, the Balkans and the Caucasus, the former two which led to the Rwandan genocide and Bosnian genocide, respectively. Signs of any resolution of tensions between Israel and the Arab world remained elusive, though the Irish Troubles came to a standstill in 1998 with the Good Friday Agreement after 30 years of violence.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of 1990s in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of 1990s in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of 1990s in a Sentence

1. Rebecca Siegel:

   The racial gap in cancer mortality is continuing to narrow -- so it was that the cancer death rate in blacks was 33 % higher than in whites in the mid-1990s, and the current data now indicate it's 14 % higher -- so it's still higher, but the gap is narrowing, which is really good news.

2. Maegan VazquezPolice reformRudy Giuliani:

   New York City once described as America's crime capital, had become by the mid-1990s, America's safest large city, murders, shootings, and violent crime are increasing at percentages unheard of in the past. We're seeing the return of rioting and looting.

3. George Beebe:

   Most Russians see U.S. relations as a fundamental source of the relationship's problems, in their view, Washington grew too ambitious in the aftermath of the Cold War. It attempted to remake Russia and remake the world according to American preferences and this from the Russian point of view proved to be disastrous.It helped to produce the collapse of the Russian state during the 1990s. It led to destabilizing wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. It produced a long series of punitive sanctions by the U.S. meant to coerce Moscow into submission.And rather than pursuing Gorbachev's bold vision of a common European home that included Russia in the broad security architecture, the U.S. opted to make NATO the foundation for European security, to bring NATO closer to Russia's borders.

4. Omer Barnes:

   After the 1990s Gulf War, a law was passed mandating every building in Israel have a safe room, so I knew the importance of creating a safe zone. It makes someone on the inside feel safer and less anxious.

5. Bill Clinton:

   The top 5 percent [of working Americans] actually did slightly better under President Reagan than me, everybody else did better in the 1990s. …. Listen to this, the bottom 20 percent, their incomes increased … 23.6 percent.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/1990s
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s
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5. ^ Wikidata
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