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In the USA that year actually marked the first decline of AIDS in the decade (17,000 people died of AIDS in 1998 versus 50,000 in 1997). By the end of 1999 the World Health Organization estimated that 16 million people in the world had died of AIDS (more than half the victims being under the age of 25). In 1992 street gangs were terrorizing entire areas of metropoles like Los Angeles. In 1989 Bush declared the "drug war" against hallucinogenic drugs (that was really a war against the drug cartels of Colombian and other "drug lords"). Some of the problems of the previous decades had fathered worse problems. The USA intervened militarily in Panama (1989), Somalia (1992), Haiti (1994), Serbia (1999). In 1992 racial riots erupted in Los Angeles and other cities, leaving 48 people dead. There were, at the same time, disturbing signs of social disease. The most populated state was now California with over 30 million people, and Los Angeles (which a century earlies was a town of 100,000 souls) had become the second largest metropolis in the country. The demographics had also changed significantly: the population of the USA was 280 million, and most of the growth took place in the South and the West. The economic expansion during his eight years was the longest in the history of the USA. By 2000 e-mail had become pervasive, replacing traditional ("snail") mail and even telephones as the main medium of long-distance communication.īill Clinton, the youngest president of the USA since John Kennedy, elected in 1992, well represented the contradictions of the new era: he was the first "baby boomer" to become president. By 1999, the US had 250 billionaires, and thousands of new millionaires were created every year by an ebullient stock market.
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A new economy appeared in the USA, the "net" economy, whose drivers were the "dot.com" companies. From that moment on, an endless stream of new companies progressively demolished the "American way of life": Marc Andreesen's Netscape in 1994 to browse the World-Wide Web Jerry Yang's Yahoo in 1994 to search the Web Craig Newmark's Craigslist in 1995 to serve the community in 1997 to sell books over the Internet Al Lieb's and Selina Tobaccowala's Evite in 1997 Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's Google in 1998 Pierre Omidyar's Ebay in 1998 Shawn Fanning's Napster in 1999 (a system to share music files) Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia in 2001, a collaborative encyclopedia edited by the whole Internet community. In 1991 the World-Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee in Geneve debuted on the Internet.
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Throughout the decade, more and more innovative software changed the way people lived their lives. The USA was rocked by one of the most influential inventions of all time, the Internet. Many in the developing world sensed the end to poverty and starvation. Many in the West fell to the illusion of perennial prosperity. Asia, in particular, staged one of the most spectacular economic booms in history, with China leading the way (China had been one of the most isolated communist countries until the early 1980s). The new world order yielded an era of global growth on a scale that had never been witnessed in the world.
The number of wars around the world decreased rapidly, as dictators were forced to retire. The USA system had won the Cold War, the USA was left the only superpower, and all the countries were struggling to emulate its winning system. During that decade the whole world (with the exceptions of a few small countries) converted to capitalism (even Russia and China) and most of the world also converted to democracy. In 1992 the treaty of Maastricht created the European Union, that spent the next two decades expanding and absorbing former satellites of the Soviet Union. Two years later the Soviet Union would collapse altogether. Coincidentally, four months earlier the very same city, Berlin, had held the first "Love Parade", a festival of electronic dance music attended by one million people. That event marked the end of the Cold War that had marked 50 years of worldwide proxy wars and a nuclear arms race. The 1990s started in 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down.