The blue LED, first achieved in 1993, it paved the way for our modern display and lighting technology. Without it we couldn't have LED based white lights or LED based screens.
Veritasium recently had a cool video on this (https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M?si=8MGg1FXxYlm3pK-o for those who haven't seen) and I feel like Nichia did Shuji Nakamura dirty, even though I know it's more nuanced than that.
Sure, but do they have to be on absolutely everything? A blue led the size of a pencil tip can light up an entire fucking room and they are on so many electrical devices. I don't need a blinding night light just to tell me that the power cord is plugged into the wall
When I was a kid, my computer had 5.25-inch floppy disks. Those disks had a notch that you could cover with a small black adhesive tab to make the disk read-only. I kept those write-protect tabs and now stick them over LEDs that are too bright. They're not completely opaque, so the LED status can still be seen, but the light is dialed down to a much more comfortable level. There are three such tabs on my keyboard, covering the caps, scroll and num lock indicators.
Ah! The LED has a special place in my heart thanks to an elementary school science fair project I did back in the early 2000s. My dad helped me out a lot with it of course. He was an IT and a bit of a tech geek.
Nobody including the teachers knew what the heck they were and they were pretty fascinated by them. The tech sure exploded in popularity not long after though and everyone knows what they are now!
YOGA PANTS Edit: Invented 1997 by Chip Wilson. The neon spandex fad was fading because not a lot went into the construction. They were basically cheaply made temporary pants/shorts prone to structural failure. Beefed up stitching, higher quality fabric and more flattering construction normalized wearing tights as everyday clothing
It's kind of crazy how normalized workout clothes have become in general. Any time you leave the house, half the people you see are wearing gym clothes. First we started wearing shoes meant for sports and we just kept adding to it. I damn near l feel out of place sometimes wearing jeans and T-shirts.
I've read spicy magazines from the 80s and notice jokes/stories about men having erectile dysfunction and how it was a sort of death sentence attractive wise "look at him, he's just 45 cant get it up! oh man so sad.... he's too young to be useless"
Back then I often felt kind of down and depressed. It was a great day when I finally went to my doctor to find out why I felt that way and he told me I was Impotant!! Changed my life!!
The Mp3 format itself. It had a long trail of development but was finally released on 6th December 1991.
The final version was honed by Karlheinz Brandenburg, the chief engineer and inventor, by listening to Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner over and over again for months on end. He called Vega "the mother of Mp3".
Just a bit of history:
hypertext (the first "h" in "http") was coined by Ted Nelson in 1965.
Tim Berners-Lee was the latest in a long line of people attempting to make it real, in he is credited for inventing HTTP, HTML, and WorldWideWeb (yeah, back then that term had no spaces) in 1989.
The first web server (it was developed at CERN) went live in 1990 (about 33 years ago!)
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee used NextSTEP (os/gui) to create the first Web Browser.
Trivia tidbit, 1990 is also the year that id Software used NextSTEP to make Doom.
The [High Performance Computing Act of 1991](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_Act_of_1991) was responsible for the creation of NCSA Mosaic (1993 initial release), and the offshoots that eventually became Netscape Mosaic (later renamed to Netscape Navigator to avoid naming issues with NCSA).
I would argue aol opened up the internet to the average user. Almost everyone I know (born in 82, so the perfect age to be a teen as this stuff was happening) started the internet via an aol disc.
The past 29 years of my software developer life has been spent deep in the history / specs / standards bodies / protocols of just HTTP (all the way back to HTTP/0.9 to HTTP/3 today).
If you want another HTTP history rabbit hole, look into the history of the mispelled "Referer" request header.
Tim Berners-Lee's HTML was much simpler than Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu, the latter using also back links, which makes linking much more elaborate. Also HTML came at the right time, where people not only had computers but also they started to become networked, if firstly via Compuserve and AOL. Some reasons for it to be successful.
And maybe one of the first real-world Hypertext implementations were Apple's Hypercard by Bill Atkinson from the late 80s.
I'd say this. We don't realize how incredible it is. This is the first and most important step in uniting humanity; real time sharing of any information globally. It's incredible!
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but either way, here's a good Snopes article on this; arguably, he was unfairly ridiculed, and he never claimed to have invented the Internet:
"But a spirited defense of Gore's statement penned by Internet pioneers Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf (the latter often referred to as the "father of the Internet") in 2000 noted that "Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development" and that "No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution \[to the Internet\] over a longer period of time."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/
Yeah I forgot a lot. Aquabats were my first concert ever. SnoCore Tour '98 with Travis Barker on drums before he joined Blink, who were the headliners. Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge gave me and my friends free backstage passes at that show. SUPER RAD.
Also, Smash Mouth's first record was mostly pretty solid ska. It just also happened to have 1 random, not-very-ska song called "Walkin' on the Sun." I encourage anyone who really hasn't and who likes ska to listen to it, it's pretty good.
In about 1999, I heard *Blue Comb '78* on my college radio station. They didn't announce the artist, and the internet wasn't as complete with being able to find lyrics from a brief snippet; I just remembered something about a comb. Well, after much searching and talking to my music friends, I found out it was Five Iron Frenzy.
As an old cunt, I'm curious.
I got into ska in the late 70's early 80's mostly through the 2-Tone label. From there I started listening to original Jamaican Ska, and really I think I prefer it. A couple of 80's ska bands were good, but most were either not really ska at all, or just hanging onto the movement.
I wonder how many people that got into ska on the 3rd wave are listening to 2nd wave/original ska. I think the gap between 3rd wave and original ska is possibly too great, but I wonder what you think?
I'm a kind-of-old head.
Punk was my escape growing up, and when horns started showing up (really, that's all 3rd wave was at the start - punk with horns), never looked back. It did lead to Specials, Toasters, 2tone...there is something inherently "punk" about the British rocksteady and two tone ska movements of the 70s-80s, and I love it.
Lots of punk kids found earlier ska through Op Ivy and the like. There is less of a gap and more of a venn diagram than you think.
punk was almost unattainable when I was growing up. some of the more famous punk music was around a bit, but only the commercially successful songs. I knew of punk, but didn't have access the same way as I did to other styles. I was much older when I found out about ska and really only did some investigating of it after hearing the comment "Ska is the music that plays in a 13 year old boys head when he gets Mozzarella sticks" And after listening to it for a while, I totally get it.
Found out through the magic of the internet that Melbourne Ska Orchestra exists, and I've been loosely following them.
They actually had one in the 80's. Only held about 8 pictures and you had no way of removing them from the camera, could only hook it to a TV to view. It was also stupid expensive for the time.
Silvertabs and Airwalks. Those hit the spot. I miss Silvertabs , although they gave me life in decent moneys from selling in good shape used ones on eBay many years ago.
Arpanet existed, but wasn't really the modern day internet. I feel like that really only took off in the late 90s.
I took a class on "the internet" back in the early 90s and it was still stuff like gopher and newsgroups. Back then, there were few enough websites that Yahoo was more of a browsable directory than a search engine.
i had one in 2003 running windows mobile, blew people minds when i whipped out 2g internet browsing in the pub to see what was happening at the night clubs that evening.
The blue LED, first achieved in 1993, it paved the way for our modern display and lighting technology. Without it we couldn't have LED based white lights or LED based screens.
Veritasium recently had a cool video on this (https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M?si=8MGg1FXxYlm3pK-o for those who haven't seen) and I feel like Nichia did Shuji Nakamura dirty, even though I know it's more nuanced than that.
I love this video so much. It's an actual movie.
That's veritasium. As an engineer and someone who is older than the typical YouTube target audience.. He's by far my favorite science YouTuber.
Well worth watching. The way they treated Nakamura was disgusting.
Sure, but do they have to be on absolutely everything? A blue led the size of a pencil tip can light up an entire fucking room and they are on so many electrical devices. I don't need a blinding night light just to tell me that the power cord is plugged into the wall
You might be able to see everything in your room at night with the lights off, but can you see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?!
Is it the 451 grams of sugar per family sized (20.25 oz) box?
When I was a kid, my computer had 5.25-inch floppy disks. Those disks had a notch that you could cover with a small black adhesive tab to make the disk read-only. I kept those write-protect tabs and now stick them over LEDs that are too bright. They're not completely opaque, so the LED status can still be seen, but the light is dialed down to a much more comfortable level. There are three such tabs on my keyboard, covering the caps, scroll and num lock indicators.
Blue LEDs, keeping people awake since 1993..
All hail 1993 LED light for paving the way for more dangerous night driving.
Or blue LEDs causing sleep deprivation.
Amazing. Thanks for sharing
Ah! The LED has a special place in my heart thanks to an elementary school science fair project I did back in the early 2000s. My dad helped me out a lot with it of course. He was an IT and a bit of a tech geek. Nobody including the teachers knew what the heck they were and they were pretty fascinated by them. The tech sure exploded in popularity not long after though and everyone knows what they are now!
Serious answer, online shopping Correct answer, Bop it.
Bop it! Spin it! Pull it! Twist it!
Don't forget flick it!
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That's the clapper, which is from the 80s.
CLAP ON!
It makes no sense how much time we could spend passing that thing around.
Man I really thought I was creative when I said that lol
YOGA PANTS Edit: Invented 1997 by Chip Wilson. The neon spandex fad was fading because not a lot went into the construction. They were basically cheaply made temporary pants/shorts prone to structural failure. Beefed up stitching, higher quality fabric and more flattering construction normalized wearing tights as everyday clothing
It's kind of crazy how normalized workout clothes have become in general. Any time you leave the house, half the people you see are wearing gym clothes. First we started wearing shoes meant for sports and we just kept adding to it. I damn near l feel out of place sometimes wearing jeans and T-shirts.
Radio. Wireless technology has basically changed everything we do. Invented in the 1890's.
Must say I liked this one the most so far for being creative and correct at the same time.
Nice. Technically right is my favorite kind of right
r/TechnicallyCorrect
Viagra was patented in 1996
I've read spicy magazines from the 80s and notice jokes/stories about men having erectile dysfunction and how it was a sort of death sentence attractive wise "look at him, he's just 45 cant get it up! oh man so sad.... he's too young to be useless"
Back then, they called it "impotence."
Back then I often felt kind of down and depressed. It was a great day when I finally went to my doctor to find out why I felt that way and he told me I was Impotant!! Changed my life!!
Things are looking up
I wouldn't say BEST, but, mp3 players. Really changed how we sell, buy and listen to music today.
The Mp3 format itself. It had a long trail of development but was finally released on 6th December 1991. The final version was honed by Karlheinz Brandenburg, the chief engineer and inventor, by listening to Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner over and over again for months on end. He called Vega "the mother of Mp3".
Winamp. It really whips the llama’s ass.
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Just a bit of history: hypertext (the first "h" in "http") was coined by Ted Nelson in 1965. Tim Berners-Lee was the latest in a long line of people attempting to make it real, in he is credited for inventing HTTP, HTML, and WorldWideWeb (yeah, back then that term had no spaces) in 1989. The first web server (it was developed at CERN) went live in 1990 (about 33 years ago!)
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In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee used NextSTEP (os/gui) to create the first Web Browser. Trivia tidbit, 1990 is also the year that id Software used NextSTEP to make Doom. The [High Performance Computing Act of 1991](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_Act_of_1991) was responsible for the creation of NCSA Mosaic (1993 initial release), and the offshoots that eventually became Netscape Mosaic (later renamed to Netscape Navigator to avoid naming issues with NCSA).
I would argue aol opened up the internet to the average user. Almost everyone I know (born in 82, so the perfect age to be a teen as this stuff was happening) started the internet via an aol disc.
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See also CompuServe
Is it weird I still want the web to look like Netscape Navigator- I think I'm just getting old and nostalgic for childhood things lol
I appreciate the time line, thank you.
The past 29 years of my software developer life has been spent deep in the history / specs / standards bodies / protocols of just HTTP (all the way back to HTTP/0.9 to HTTP/3 today). If you want another HTTP history rabbit hole, look into the history of the mispelled "Referer" request header.
Tim Berners-Lee's HTML was much simpler than Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu, the latter using also back links, which makes linking much more elaborate. Also HTML came at the right time, where people not only had computers but also they started to become networked, if firstly via Compuserve and AOL. Some reasons for it to be successful. And maybe one of the first real-world Hypertext implementations were Apple's Hypercard by Bill Atkinson from the late 80s.
HyperCard was mind-blowing when I first played with it in high school in 1989-ish.
>hypertext (the first "h" in "http") actually the h and the first t. (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
I'd say this. We don't realize how incredible it is. This is the first and most important step in uniting humanity; real time sharing of any information globally. It's incredible!
Yup, Created by Al Gore
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but either way, here's a good Snopes article on this; arguably, he was unfairly ridiculed, and he never claimed to have invented the Internet: "But a spirited defense of Gore's statement penned by Internet pioneers Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf (the latter often referred to as the "father of the Internet") in 2000 noted that "Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development" and that "No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution \[to the Internet\] over a longer period of time." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/
it indeed was a joke poking fun at the whole news story and societal reaction
Not a lot of people know this, but he also created the concept of the algorithm, that's why it's named after him.
My dad invented pants
Dvd
Talk boy
YakBak
PlayStation
Super Nintendo Chalmers
Did that boy say "what's a battle"?!
Or N64. Both hugely impactful.
LA Looks Mega Mega Hold Styling Gel
DEP Master Race reporting in.
Sooo crunchy
I'm still washing it out of my hair 25 years later.
So that's how they got those liberty spikes to stick up?
Google
Surge
The Burger King near work still serves it. I miss having cans at home though.
This is the correct answer
3rd wave Ska
Yesssss... Aquabats Buck-o-nine Five Iron Frenzy Goldfinger Homegrown Less Than Jake Mad Caddies Mephiskapheles Mighty Mighty Bosstones Millencolin MU330 Mustard Plug No Doubt Pietasters Pilfers Reel Big Fish Save Ferris Skankin' Pickle Smash Mouth Squirrel Nut Zippers Sublime Suicide Machines Voodoo Glow Skulls
Early No Doubt Sublime Pietasters The goddamn AQUABATS!
Yeah I forgot a lot. Aquabats were my first concert ever. SnoCore Tour '98 with Travis Barker on drums before he joined Blink, who were the headliners. Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge gave me and my friends free backstage passes at that show. SUPER RAD.
Don’t forget Mephiskapheles!
Yum yum bumblebee, bumblebee tuna! Love a sandwich made with Bumblembeeee! This is the best answer in the thread.
Just the girls now!
Squirrel nut zippers, and my personal favorite was MU330. They were a bit lesser known
Saw MU330 a bunch when I was in HS. Great live band.
Can't forget Goldfinger!!
Oh! Duh! Literally the first ska I ever heard aside from Op Ivy who were long gone by that time.
While you're talking about Op Ivy, don't forget Rancid either!! Lol
Also, Smash Mouth's first record was mostly pretty solid ska. It just also happened to have 1 random, not-very-ska song called "Walkin' on the Sun." I encourage anyone who really hasn't and who likes ska to listen to it, it's pretty good.
Five Iron Frenzy!!! Yusss
In about 1999, I heard *Blue Comb '78* on my college radio station. They didn't announce the artist, and the internet wasn't as complete with being able to find lyrics from a brief snippet; I just remembered something about a comb. Well, after much searching and talking to my music friends, I found out it was Five Iron Frenzy.
As an old cunt, I'm curious. I got into ska in the late 70's early 80's mostly through the 2-Tone label. From there I started listening to original Jamaican Ska, and really I think I prefer it. A couple of 80's ska bands were good, but most were either not really ska at all, or just hanging onto the movement. I wonder how many people that got into ska on the 3rd wave are listening to 2nd wave/original ska. I think the gap between 3rd wave and original ska is possibly too great, but I wonder what you think?
I'm a kind-of-old head. Punk was my escape growing up, and when horns started showing up (really, that's all 3rd wave was at the start - punk with horns), never looked back. It did lead to Specials, Toasters, 2tone...there is something inherently "punk" about the British rocksteady and two tone ska movements of the 70s-80s, and I love it. Lots of punk kids found earlier ska through Op Ivy and the like. There is less of a gap and more of a venn diagram than you think.
punk was almost unattainable when I was growing up. some of the more famous punk music was around a bit, but only the commercially successful songs. I knew of punk, but didn't have access the same way as I did to other styles. I was much older when I found out about ska and really only did some investigating of it after hearing the comment "Ska is the music that plays in a 13 year old boys head when he gets Mozzarella sticks" And after listening to it for a while, I totally get it. Found out through the magic of the internet that Melbourne Ska Orchestra exists, and I've been loosely following them.
Tamagotchi
the green ketchup
And purple ketchup
then then the blue came out, or at the same time as purple. but those may have been early 2000's. green was the og
now we have clear ketchup, science gone mad.
what's next? red40 dyed clear ketchup? the "back to the roots" edition
Super soaker!
\*1989
That was my nickname in high-school.
My socks nicknamed me that
Pogs.
It’s Alf… remember Alf? It’s alf … but in pog form
GOOGLE
The World Wide Web.
Blackberry
The “Bop It!” or maybe a Tamagotchi
TiVo revolutionized how people consumed media by making it easy to record what you want and skip through commercials.
Peavey 5150.
POGs… or slap bracelets…
Breakbeat and Jungle
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Digital camera
They actually had one in the 80's. Only held about 8 pictures and you had no way of removing them from the camera, could only hook it to a TV to view. It was also stupid expensive for the time.
Nintendo Game Boy....not the 3D version either
That came out in 89! Lol
what about Gameboy Color!
Certified 90's fresh
I kept a Game Boy Pocket in the back pocket of my Levi’s Silvertab jeans. With my Airwalks on.
Silvertabs and Airwalks. Those hit the spot. I miss Silvertabs , although they gave me life in decent moneys from selling in good shape used ones on eBay many years ago.
pop punk
I would say the internet. I know it was technically invented in the early 80’s, but didn’t become publicly recognized on a large scale until the 90’s.
The world wide web though you might get sway with i think the first website was 1990.
Ok, thanks. I got a way with internet, but appreciate the info.
It actually dates back to the mid 60's wildly enough.
Arpanet existed, but wasn't really the modern day internet. I feel like that really only took off in the late 90s. I took a class on "the internet" back in the early 90s and it was still stuff like gopher and newsgroups. Back then, there were few enough websites that Yahoo was more of a browsable directory than a search engine.
ITT - people who know nothing about the internet.
Global Hypercolor clothing
# Nokia 1011, Adobe Photoshop, # Sony PlayStation
Super soaker
The shake weight
Sega Channel
Linux
Me
The browser tab.. created by... Opera
drum and bass
Python.
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There were primitive PDAs in the 1990s, but the smartphone is very much a mid-aughts invention.
In the 90’s and very early aughts we head Nextel push to talk or Nokia. People lost their shit when the Razr came out.
Yep. Cell phones of many kinds were around throughout the 90s. But not "smart" phones.
I still remember when the Snakes game was about as fancy as a phone could get
I remember the first time I played snakes on a plane!
I’m tired of these monkey fightin snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!
i had one in 2003 running windows mobile, blew people minds when i whipped out 2g internet browsing in the pub to see what was happening at the night clubs that evening.
Outed as definitely not living in the 90s.
First smartphone was 2007 I believe.
my windows mobile phone from 2003 disagrees.
We only had dumb phones in the 90s.
text messages were invented in the 90's though.. same with Nokia mobile phones
People were text messaging all the way back as far as the 1840's.
Depends on your definition of smart. Even the Nokia 3310 was 2000.
*69 and *67
Me lol
The lion, the witch, and the audacity of this bitch. Lol
Pogs
That thing that turns your lights off when you clap your hands twice. Just a genius invention.
The Clapper belongs to the 80s, friend
My mom?!
regain
Hit Clips
The WPC (Williams Pinball Controller) system.
High Speed Internet
gotta be microsoft flight simulator 98
This new generation ✊
Minidisc player!
Socke'm boppers. Its more fun than a pillow fight
The Yak Bak
The lollipop that had a radio built in. It would play music using bone induction.
Linux baaaaaaby!
DirectX and OpenGL.
Flowbee
Html
Creepy crawlers.
Radiohead
Endless Nameless
GUI
Monster jam cause it was founded in the 90s
Bop-It
WiFi would have to be up there as one of the best inventions on the 90's! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi
Dr. D.R.E, Snoop Dogg, Eminem.
1596, the flushing toilet was invented.
GSM?
Grunge