Halfway from 1990 to 2038

We are now halfway from 1990 to 2038.

1990

Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, Desert Shield, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union. Also in this year, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after over 11 years.

President George H. W. Bush started the first Gulf War. It would end in Feb 1991.

The Soviet Union would end in 1991.

In the fall of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee created the first web server and the foundation for the World Wide Web; it would be released to the public in 1991. 1990 also saw the official decommissioning of the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet system.

The world population was 5.26 billion and World GDP was 27.5 trillion in 1990 dollars.

Purchasing power parity GDP. China nominal GDP was $390 billion

Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation book was written in 1986.

Eric Drexler's MIT dissertation would be finished in 1991 Nanosystems would be published in 1992.

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