1990's Economic Events

  • Americans With Disabilities (ADA) law was passed

    Americans With Disabilities (ADA) law was passed
    The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law in 1990. The ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life
  • Linux software

    Linux software
    Linux software was created by Linus Torvalds when trying to create a new free operating system. which only continued to grow as the years passed. It is most commonly used for a platform for google,Facebook, Instagram, and twitter
  • Desert Storm

    Desert Storm
    The Gulf War code-named Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces
  • Nokia phones (first messaging)

    Nokia phones (first messaging)
    Nokia's telecommunications division was renamed "Nokia-Moira Oy". In the same year, the "Moira Talk-man", an early portable phone was launched, introducing its first mobile phone
  • Globalization and technology

    Globalization and technology
    A reduction of the distance barriers that prevented workers in one country from competing directly with those in another. The technology "Boom" was the invention of the modern computer changing the ways we live our lives
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    The World Wide Web is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. It made a big impact our day to day lives
  • play stations and Nintendo

    play stations and Nintendo
    increases demand making production high and businesses are trying to expand the businesses. This also effects lives today because its consumes many teenagers lives and also is a way to make profit and a living
  • NAFTA

    NAFTA
    The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, is a three-country accord negotiated by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States that entered into force in January 1994.
  • Minimum Wage Raises

    Minimum Wage Raises
    minimum wage raised to in the 90's making it easier for individuals to live their lives at a higher standard.
  • Pathfinder lands on Mars

    Pathfinder lands on Mars
    Mars Pathfinder is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997, and became the first rover to operate outside the Earth–Moon system.
  • U.S. embassies attacked

    U.S. embassies attacked
    suicide bombers parked a truck filled with bombs outside the two embassies, when it detonated it killed 224 people and injured over 4,000 people. After the attacks Bill Clinton ordered multiple missile strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan. After these attacks more continue to happen.