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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 radio début. What a month

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What 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.

Robert 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.

Also that war in the Balkans.

According 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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography

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.

We didn't start the fire..

Goosebumps ^_^

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