TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES FROM 1990 TO 1995

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES FROM 1990 TO 1995.

1990

January 24: Launch of Japanese moon probe Hiten.

February 28: ARPANET hardware but the Internet continues to function is disabled.

April 24: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched.

October 6: launching the Ulysses probe to study the sun.
1991

October 6: the Helsinki University (Finland), Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel based on Unix systems

In the United States the first version of Microsoft Publisher is created.

July 17: Launch of the European earth observation satellite ERS.

October 29: The Galileo spacecraft, en route to Jupiter, the asteroid flies (951) Gaspra.

Until 1991 they have managed to identify 2,114 genes in the human genome.

The Peruvian government imposed a state of emergency to a cholera epidemic.

Robert Gallo removed Luc Montagnier claims against the priority of the discovery of the AIDS virus.

Julio Reyes, James Mead and Koen van Waerebeek described for the first time less beaked whale (pygmy beaked whale).

June 23: it is released Sonic the Hedgehog video game, starring the eponymous character who becomes mascot of SEGA.

August 13: goes on sale the game console Super Nintendo Entertainment System in America.

October: goes on sale the first issue of Hobby Consoles.

December 12: sent for the first time in Japan Sega Mega CD peripheral.


1992

In the United States the introduction of silicone breast implants is prohibited.

In Moscow, due to the extinction of the Soviet Union, the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR was renamed Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

Goes on sale the Super Nintendo console.

Go on sale Super Mario and Street Fighter II.

Goes on sale Sonic 2

Goes on sale Mortal Kombat


1993

March 28: The Galileo spacecraft, en route to Jupiter, the asteroid flies (253) Ida.

June 24: British Andrew Wiles revolutionized mathematics to solve Fermat's Last Theorem
Researchers at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris, made public the first physical map of the 90% of the human genome.

It is made public for the first time a trial of human cloning.

US scientists intend to develop the genetic map of all human populations studied 500 ethnic groups.

April: European launch of Sega CD peripherals.

October 23: US launch of the fifth generation console 3DO.

November 18: launch of the Atari Jaguar console.

The first game of the FIFA series is created.
1994

January 25: US launches lunar probe Clementine.

May 10: eclipse solar

February 19: US Clementine probe enters lunar orbit.

On sale: consoles: Sega 32X and Sega Multi-Mega

Top games: Castlevania: Bloodllines, Donkey Kong Country, International Superstar Soccer, Mega Man X2, Mortal Kombat II, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Streets of Rage 3, Super Bomberman 2, Super Metroid, Super Punch-Out !! Urban Strike and Heretic.


1995

Robert Gallo identifies natural inhibitors in human cells capable of slowing the progression of HIV (the virus that causes AIDS).

Joan Massagué and Carlos Cordon-Cardo discovered the p27 oncoprotein.

The ataxia telangiectasia gene is identified.

In the Geneva Observatory (Switzerland), astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discover 51

Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a main-sequence star.

ETC.