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Google begins indexing the World Wide Web. 1997 April 1 - The Hale–Bopp comet swings past the Sun for the first time in 4,300 years and leads to the Heaven's Gate suicides. July 4 - NASA's spacecraft Pathfinder lands on Mars and deploys a small roving vehicle, Sojourner, which analyzes the planet's geology and atmosphere.
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]
The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792). From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents [7] relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below.
The 24-year-old from Brooklyn was the first to use a new technology called digitalization to capture images. Four decades later, we carry his invention in our pockets on our phones. Courtesy of ...
The transformative invention is just one of many DARPA projects that have had a huge impact on our world. Check out some of the other game-changing innovations in the timeline:
1990 – First transport simulation computer game Railroad Tycoon released. 1990 – ADtranz low floor tram world's first completely low floor tram introduced. 1994 – Channel Tunnel opens. 1994 – Modern kickbike invented in Finland. 1997 – First Maglev train prototypes are tested in Japan.
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of ... This made China become the world's ... and further developed in the 1980s and 1990s by ...
Thirty-five years ago, users heard the infamous dial-up sound for the first time. The '80s were a decade defined by major technological innovations, big hair, cult-classic movies and the start of ...