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The Nineties: Nov 19

Doco series on SBS looks back Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Gates & Steve Jobs.

There are 2 more episodes of The Nineties on SBS this Sunday looking at international politics and technology.

The series concludes a week later.

Episode Five: New World Order (8.30pm)
The world changed in fundamental ways in the first few years of the 1990s. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved and East and West Germany were united. Nelson Mandela was freed from prison and Mikhail Gorbachev was forced out of office as apartheid ended in South Africa and the Soviet Union collapsed. After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, President Bush led an international coalition in the Persian Gulf War. In the 1992 election, Ross Perot, a flamboyant multi-millionaire businessman challenged the political establishment and Bill Clinton became America’s first Baby Boom president.

Episode Six: Technology (9.25pm)
Where would we be without Google, Amazon, PayPal, eBay and email? So many things woven through the fabric of contemporary life began in the 1990s and none would have a bigger impact than the Internet. Bill Gates and Microsoft dominated the decade and Steve Jobs returned to Apple. Of course, there was a dark side to this brave new tech world as well in the form of hackers, online predators and the proliferation of pornography. The world didn’t crash in Y2K but the dot com bubble did burst, and the world would never be the same.

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