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search  1990s Portal  The 1990s, also known as "the Nineteen
Nineties" or abbreviated as "the Nineties" or "the '90s", was
the decade that started on 1 January 1990, and ended on 31
December 1999. It was the tenth and final decade of the 20th
century and the last full decade of the 2nd millennium.  The
'90s is often considered the true dawn of the Information Age.
Though info-age technologies predate the 1980s, it was not until
the late 1980s and the 1990s that they became widely used by the
general public. A combination of factors, including the mass
mobilization of capital markets through neoliberalism, the
beginning of the widespread proliferation of new media such as
the Internet, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to a
realignment and reconsolidation of economic and political power
across the world, and within countries.  The 1990s is often
considered the end of Modernity and the dawn of the Postmodern
age, even though the first traces o