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In today's episode, Michael and Tim will discuss other major events from 1990. These are events for which we didn't necessarily devote an entire episode, but they are important for understanding the 90's.  Thanks for joining us, and please don't forget to rate and review the show! Contact us and follow us at the following: email: essential90shistory@gmail.com Twitter: @essential90s Instagram: @ essential90shistory website: www.essential90shistory.com Theme music: Hip Hop Vibes by the ARTISANS Beats

On October 3rd, 1990, East and West Germany officially reunited. This was in many ways another end to the Cold War and a precursor to the European Union, and the effects are still with us today as we debate the effects of globalization and other issues, such as Brexit.  On today's episode Tim and Michael will be discussing German Unification as a major event of 1990, why it was important, and how its effects still resonate today.  Thanks for joining us, and please don't forget to rate and review the show! Contact us and follow us at the following: email: essential90shistory@gmail.com Twitter: @essential90s Instagram: @ essential90shistory website: www.essential90shistory.com Theme music: Hip Hop Vibes by the ARTISANS Beats

In this episode Michael and Tim will be discussing one of the most popular television shows of the 90s (and of all time)...Seinfeld! Seinfeld was an enormously popular show that had its first season in 1990 and ran for almost the entire decade for a total of nine seasons. The show was well written and innovative and often topical. While in some ways, Seinfeld is a product of its time, it still seems fresh, and still makes you laugh today as it can be seen in syndication almost everywhere.  Can Seinfeld tell us anything about the trajectory of American culture during the 90s? We think so, and today we decided to sit down and talk about it. We think you'll enjoy this episode where we explore the different ways that this important television show can teach us something about the history of the 90's! Thanks for joining us, and please don't forget to rate and review the show! Contact us and follow us at the following: email: essential90shistory@gmail.com Twitter: @essential90s Instagram: @ essential90shistory website: www.essential90shistory.com Theme music: Hip Hop Vibes by the ARTISANS Beats

On Christmas Day of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee created the first web page on the World Wide Web. While the World Wide Web would not be accessible to the outside world until the following year (it was only locally available within CERN, where he was employed), this was the culmination of several different breakthroughs that Berners-Lee had made in the development of an idea he had first sketched a year earlier.  The World Wide Web and the ease with which it allows us to use the Internet is commonplace to us now, but when Berners-Lee first invented the idea, many people--even within the computing community--did not grasp its significance.  The invention of the World Wide Web is important for the history of the 90’s and the internet, but it can also help us to understand the internet in our own lives today. As we access the internet in many different ways today, through apps and other services, it can be illuminating to think about the manner in which the first generation of internet users experienced life online. How can these insights impact our own understanding of the internet and how to use it? 

On January 31st the first McDonald’s opened on Pushkin Square in the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. had not yet fallen, but the Iron Curtain was already coming apart. With the first American fast food restaurant opening in Russia, it was clear that things were about to change very quickly in the world, and change they certainly did.  The 90’s are known as a time when the pace of globalization increased at an exponential rate. The barriers to free trade, across borders and even between individuals from across the world, were about to come down, for political, economic, and technological reasons, and the world would never be the same.  In today’s episode, Tim and Michael are jumping into the 90’s feet first, and we’re going to start by framing one of the major themes that will help to define the podcast--globalization.  What is globalization? Why is this term associated with the 90’s in general? How does it affect us even today? Since globalization is a major theme that will define many of our stories in Essential 90’s History, today we’re going to spend some time discussing and framing the concept of globalization, and how it poses questions that we want to explore going forward.

In this episode we will be discussing the 41st president of the United States, George H. W. Bush. Michael and Tim will be discussing his life and career in general and the beginning of his presidency, which takes us up to the beginning of our decade, the 1990s.  Thanks for joining us, and please don't forget to rate and review the show! Contact us and follow us at the following: email: essential90shistory@gmail.com Twitter: @essential90s Instagram: @ essential90shistory website: www.essential90shistory.com Theme music: Hip Hop Vibes by the ARTISANS Beats

In this episode, we'll be discussing the year that was 1989 and all of the cultural events of that year that we think are most emblematic of the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s. Today we'll be talking about influential television, movies, and music on the fourth episode of Essential 90s History Thanks for joining us, and please don't forget to rate and review the show! Contact us and follow us at the following: email: essential90shistory@gmail.com Twitter: @essential90s Instagram: @ essential90shistory website: www.essential90shistory.com Theme music: Hip Hop Vibes by the ARTISANS Beats

Why was 1989 "the End of History?"

An overview of the Cold War.

Introduction to Essential 90's History