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Back in 1995 – A Tantalising Glimpse

Karina PandyaBy Karina PandyaJanuary 14, 2018No Comments4 Mins Read
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1995 – it could feel like yesterday for some or
perhaps a lifetime ago.  Having grown up in the 90s, a lot has
changed over the past 21 years
.  Its
quite hard to grapple over the fact that the
 times
can change so much!  With fragmented memories of 1995, it was the
year the Internet actually gained public attention.

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It was the year of
dial up modems and giant monitors and of course, the inevitable ‘vomit-noise’
that signal
led the establishment a successful
connection to the ‘World Wide Web’!





Bill Clinton was the president of America at this point of time
and 
Kocheril Raman Narayanan was the Vice President of India
with Shankar Dayal Sharma as the
President of India. The Prime Minister of India at that time was P.V.Narasimha
Rao
 Microsoft released Windows 95 and JavaScript was introduced and deployed
for the first time. EBay, started as
a
shopping and online auction website where people were able to buy as well as
sell goods and services globally.
The DVD (digital video disc/digital versatile disc) is a digital optical
disc storage format
that was invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.
It was a device, which could store any kind of digital data and is
widely used for software and other computer files as well as video program were watched using DVD players. 
DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact discs, while having
the same dimensions.
 What was TV LIKE?

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There were very few but popular sitcoms during the 90s and some of them
were Saved by the Bell, Full House, X-files and Twin Peaks. Broadcast
television in the 90s and especially in 95’ was like the Netflix of today! 

Seinfeld was the most popular sitcom, which almost everyone followed and
included in their social conversations. 
In fact, the last episode of Full House had aired
after eight seasons! 

The Soup Nazi,
which is the 116th episode of Seinfeld and with it came the
catchphrase ‘No Soup for you’ – applicable for so many of life’s
disappointments.

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The former football star O.J. Simpson was acquitted for the brutal 1994
double murder of his estranged wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald
Goldman on October 3rd, 1995.  

Pagers, No
Smartphones – but pagers!



These were
also known as beepers and were used to message and display alphanumerical
messages and/or even announce voice messages. A number would appear on the LCD
screen, which would indicate, to you who would be trying to contact you, so
that you could be able to call them back.


This was all
in America, but what about India?




It was the year the
Shiv Sena came to power and Bombay became ‘Mumbai’.
Aditya
Chopra’s directorial debut, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (DDLJ)
 was released and it became the longest
running Hindi movie.
It was the year
India joined the World Trade Organisation and had replaced GATT (General
Agreement on Tariff and Trade)
It was also the
year when there were reports of the
Hindu milk miracle, which surfaced, and the story picked up getting covered by
the news services around the world such as the New York Times, the Guardian,
CNN and the BBC.
 The period of 1995 was a confusing
and terrifying time in many ways and there lies many secrets that yet remain
uncovered to illuminate the secrets of the mysterious and ‘ancient’
period of the late 90s; but do you think you can look back at your life and
travel back in time?             



In 1995Amazon went online & today it’s founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world!

           

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