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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.
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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.
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American-born mathematician John Daugman perfects the mathematics that make iris scanning systems possible.
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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.
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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.
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Your Easy Bake Oven let you pretend you knew how to bake stuff without any of the liability of using a real stove.
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The popularity of mobile phones went bananas in the '90s. Of course, most were huge and chunky
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WRAL-HD broadcasts the first high-definition television (HDTV) signal in the United States.
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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.
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If you were a business person in the late '90s, chances are you had a PalmPilot to make appointments, store contacts, and send messages.
