Technology of the 1990's

  • talkboy

    talkboy
    After watching "Home Alone 2," everyone wanted a Talkboy. This little gadget let you record and playback whatever you wanted, plus speed up or slow down recordings to make yourself sound ridiculous.
  • SEGA Genesis

    SEGA Genesis
    The Sega Genesis, which came bundled with Sonic the Hedgehog, was technically released in the U.S. in 1988 but didn't start really winning our hearts until the '90s.
  • Scanning systems

    Scanning systems
    American-born mathematician John Daugman perfects the mathematics that make iris scanning systems possible.
  • Playstation 1

    Playstation 1
    The PlayStation[note 1] (officially abbreviated to PS, and commonly known as the PS1 or PSX) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.
  • EBAY

    EBAY
    eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. Today it is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 30 countries.
  • Easybake oven

    Easybake oven
    Your Easy Bake Oven let you pretend you knew how to bake stuff without any of the liability of using a real stove.
  • Mobile Phone

    Mobile Phone
    The popularity of mobile phones went bananas in the '90s. Of course, most were huge and chunky
  • HD TV

    HD TV
    WRAL-HD broadcasts the first high-definition television (HDTV) signal in the United States.
  • WIFI

    WIFI
    The first version of the 802.11 protocol was released in 1997, and provided up to 2 Mbit/s link speeds. This was updated in 1999 with 802.11b to permit 11 Mbit/s link speeds, and this proved to be popular.
  • palm pilot

    palm pilot
    If you were a business person in the late '90s, chances are you had a PalmPilot to make appointments, store contacts, and send messages.