What happened onJanuary 31, 1993Sunday Week 4

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The World in 1993 the year the web went free

By the end of 1993 the whole world had only about 600 websites. Most high schools have more students than the planet had websites.

Life back then

Most people had never heard the word internet said out loud. Music came on cassettes and CDs, and movies came home from the video shop on VHS. On January 1 the twelve countries of the European Community dropped their border checks on goods, so a truck could drive from Portugal to Denmark without stopping. A free program called Mosaic came out this year and showed web pages with pictures, so the web finally started to make sense to regular people.

The year in 8 events

• 🗺️Jan 1 Czechoslovakia peacefully splits into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
• 🕯️Feb 26 A truck bomb explodes under the World Trade Center in New York. Six people die.
• 🕯️Apr 19 The 51-day standoff in Waco, Texas ends in a fire. About 75 people die.
• 🌐Apr 30 CERN puts the World Wide Web into the public domain. Anyone can use it, free forever.
• 🌍May 24 Eritrea declares independence from Ethiopia after 30 years of war, and becomes Africa's newest country.
• 🦖Jun 11 Jurassic Park opens and soon becomes the biggest movie ever at the time.
• 🤝Sep 13 Israel and the PLO sign the Oslo peace accord. Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shake hands in Washington.
• 🏛️Nov 1 The Maastricht Treaty takes effect and the European Union is born.

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