EXPLOSION TECHNOLOGY

--- What happened from 1990 to 1999 was a real whirlwind in technology.
Typewriters, fax, cassettes, VHS, vinyl, duplicating machines, stationery ... All this was for the museum. And what seemed like science fiction became reality. The brave new world knocked on the door and entered. -


CD

Accustomed to vinyl LPs that time the population soon became fascinated with the compact disc, or CD. Much smaller than an LP, with capacity for more time with music and sound quality and no noise, soon conquered all.
Created in 1979 by Philips and Sony charmed the country and in 1993 became the main Brazilian phonographic format.
Soon after came the discaman's boxes sound amplifier and radio to own cars.
So much technology has allowed once the "invention" of piracy by the same media which created tanats news. Who thought the sound revolution of the 90 stop there, he cheated.
In 1995 came the MP3 format, a sound system that made the smallest in terms of weight and without much loss of quality.
The initial idea was it to be heard in a small device but it soon expanded to electronic communication on the Internet (it could be sent from one computer to another).
In 1999 it launched the first program that allowed its user to have all the music network of interconnected computers. This raised the ire of record companies, processes and leakage of new songs.


TV
In Brazil, the most notable changes were the arrival of cable television and the big purchase, greatly increasing the amount of viewers.
At that time, but in less accessible price, the Home Theater.
Launched in 1998 in Brazil, DVD players become hot and tore the tapes due to its good quality sound and picture and the smaller size.
Also arose in the first digital camera .. after many attempts with models showed pictures without quality, arose the first digital camera in good resolution NikonD1.


MAKING THE WORLD BY COMPUTER
The year 1990 saw increasing development of personal computers, known PCs
The increased ability to process files, resource development and the incredible graphics and sound memory expansion meant that the revolt began there digital.
That machine would become indispensable and long to produce text and tables up to know everything that happened in the world.
Windows (operating system that facilitated the organization of programs and the use of new features inside the computer) that was launched in 1990 has revolutionized the use of computers.
And later on in 1995 embarked on Windows 95 (a more practical system like Windows also allow normal access to the internet) became a mania that enriched and Bill Gates, his creator.


INTERNET
When he came out of academia to the world she has revolutionized communication, as only the phone had been able to before.
Programs and more programs that were being improved and made possible the distributed Internet commerce, searches and searches, sending e-mail, online chat, read news, listen to music, buying merchandise ... there began the Digital Age.


MOBILE
Launched in Brazil in 1990 cost a fortune and was inaccessible most of the people.
Its battery lasted a little and his weight was great (they were the famous tijolões).
Over time the price dropped and the imperfections have been improved and fiber optic cables installed by the cities enable better communication and access to many more people.
The explosion in Brazil began in 1997 with the creation and privatization of the National Agency of Telecommunications and the increase in range in the cell signal.
With the creation of a pre-paid q Facit life mobile phone has become a desire for everyone.




Credits: Almanaque Anos 90, Silvio Essinger. pg. 192

MOVIES

The 90 featured films from the Mafia genre with: "Goodfellas " (1990), a realistic treatment of violence; " Casino " " The Godfather ";" Analyze This ".
Wild West movies were also once when director Clint Eastwood has proved that this genre still had much to give to the film "Unforgiven ".
More Wild West: " Dances with Wolves " (1990); " Quick and the Dead " (1995); " Young Guns " .

In the mid-called movies "woman" became a bestseller. Good examples are the films: " Four Weddings and a Funeral " (1994) the film's most successful British film and "Pretty Woman " (1990), one of highest-grossing of the decade.
More Movies little woman " Before Sunrise " (1995); " Thelma and Louise " (1991) ; " Notting Hill " (1999); "My Best Friend's Wedding  " (1997 ).

SPECIAL EFFECTS


The films of the era relied on rapid progress on the part of special effects. Who fell in love with the special effects in "Total Recall" 1990 could not imagine what would come next year with the continuation of the movie. The computer graphics took over. The great scenes is when a liquid metal takes the form of anything. A new leap forward came with more " Jurassic Park " (1993). This time the proposal dinosaurs were created entirely by computers with realism (breathing, walking, sounds .. everything!). i began the reign of computer graphics in film. Big hits came in the following years: "Casper" (1995)," Babe " (1995) and "Mask" (1994).
More great revolution happen next with "Toy Story " the first computer-generated animation. A marriage of Pixar Animation Studios to Disney. The film opened doors for several animations following: "continuing" "Toy Story 2 "and " A Bug's Life ".
In 1997 it was the turn of the incredible recreation of the tragic accident in 1912 with the ship "Titanic " fiction " Men in Black " and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park ".
The last years of the decade had over a revolution, " Matrix ". The film opened a sensational type of special effect: the camera that rotates around the actor while he moves in a very low speed or is frozen.

SEX
Sex was a marked presence in the films of the season. Plots with forbidden passions, fight for social classes and stunning peppered further.
One of the directors that stood out was Pedro Almodovar who created enrredos with family drama, humor, obsessions, romances, sex and taboos. After their directors Poles, Danes, Australians and so on also made films say "heavy".
Films with Strong Sex Scenes " Basic Instinct " (which launched the actress Sharon Stone); " Showgirl" (a real failure); " Ata-me" (Pedro Almodovar).

DRAMA, ROMANCE AND MANY TEARS


Sex, violence and special effects may have dominated the cinema of the decade, but the good old film that has shed rivers of tears and consumes many boxes of tissues was not left behind.

"TITANIC" (1997): Before anything pierced the millennium as the highest grossing film in history no less than 1835 million. Based on the history of the ocean liner which sank in northern waters in 1912 with a romantic story intertwining with the ship was not to anyone else. The chemistry of Kate Winslet with Leonardo DiCaprio living scenes of adventure and romance to the film won 11 Oscars.

"GHOST" (1990): The idea of Jerry Zucker to mix romance, action, comedy and spiritualism in a single movie it worked.
The "good guy" is dead at the behest of his co-worker, but is roaming the land. When he realizes that his beloved is in danger addresses to communicate with her through a psychic.

"Life Is Beautiful" (1997): The film depicts the horrors of Nazism with a touch of comedy that drops many tears at the end.
Guido (BEGn) is sent to a concentration camp with his family including his son. He tries to keep everyone alive and still hide the child what is really happening, saying that it is a game and a prize pool of real war.


Picardy Some Teens: " Clueless " (1995), the name says it all, right? A funny picture of bourgeois life of a teenager in Beverly Hills; " American Pie " (1999) four promising youngsters lose their virginity before college, which makes sense at the time is that the jokes were heavier and the scenes well and the girls lose the stereotype of poor things to show and to also lose their virginity. Remember that there is no explicit sex, only hints of it good; " Cruel Intentions " (1999): Sebastian (Ryan Philippe) and Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) become brother when their parents marry and start to confide amoral. Like to make bets with each other, sexual games.

The cinema of the 90s also saw gay films, films of psychopathic murders and gothic films.

Credits: Livro Almanque Anos 90, de Silvio Essinger, p. 122 até 167.

POLICY IN BRAZIL

With its 32nd president and the first elected through democracy, Fernando Collor de Mello , Brazil has experienced instability with the confiscation of savings over 50 000 dollars per 18 months, rising taxes, the opening of markets, removal of over 300 000 civil servants and the changes of its currency (New Cross) Such measures were part of his economic plan to stabilize inflation. This was called Plano Collor or Plano Brasil Novo. Students outraged by such measures have created the movement Caras Pintadas in the course of 1992 asking the empeachment (removal of undesirable persons from exercising a public function) of then President Fernando Collor. This after allegations of corruption against the president who joined other complaints about his campaign, said to have been manipulated by public opinion (Rede Globo). Fernando Collor resigned in an attempt to avoid impeachment proceedings based on allegations of corruption. Although he resigned, the impeachment process continued and Fernando Collor had been stripped of their rights for eight years at the discretion of the Senate.
In the next government of Itamar Franco (Vice F. Collor), the country has experienced economic stability and growth with the Plano Real (1994), which matched the parity of the currency and the dollar through a currency band. The then Finance Minister, Fernando Henrique Cardoso was the one who implemented the Plano Real. The Plano Real had: conversion rules and the use of monetary values, started the indexation of the economy, and decided to launch a new currency, the Real. The Plano Real was in the months and years following the economic stabilization plan most effective in history, reducing inflation (objective), increasing the purchasing power of the population, and reshaping the national economic sectors. This plan saved the country and assured Fernando Henrique Cardoso two terms as president of Brazil.


Credits: Plano Collor, the Real Plan and Wikipedia.

MUSIC

The music in the '90s was marked mainly by the consecration of pop music and the phenomenon of boy bands, both in the Brazilian and international level. Already established singers in the 80s continued into the mouth of the people in that decade, like Madonna and Michael Jackson, who continued charting hits and sell millions of records. In Brazil the burst was the emergence of Axé Music, consolidating the success of country music and pop-rock that spawned the radio throughout the country.
Teen Times: In 1993 in England, the music scene has changed completely and burst with a group of girls, the Spice Girls, a teen pop phenomenon who sang songs like "Wannabe," "Say You'll Be There" and "Goodbye" . The success of the Spice Girls gave rise around the world other groups of pop music, as the trio of American brothers Hanson, who appeared in 1997 and sang hits like "MMMBop" and "Where's The Love" and in 1998 also in the USA, boys Brian, AJ, Howie, Nick and Kevin formed the Backstreet Boys, a true musical phenomenon worldwide, who sang songs like "Everbody", "Quit Playing Games With My Heart," "As Long As You Love Me" and "I Want It That Way. " Are also of the 90 other pop phenomena, such as N'Sync, "I Want You Back," Britney Spears "... Baby One More Time"  and Christina Aguilera with "Genie in a Bottle."


The country music: Straight from the interior of Brazil, in 1990, the country music country music that moves away from the root and the songs that talk about stories of love and longing to gain size pop phenomenon. Chitãozinho e Xororó with a career and have devoted millions of albums sold and still charting hits as "Evidencias" and "Chuva de Lágrimas", but begin to share the stage with other teams hinterland, like the brothers of Goiás Leandro e Leonardo, who in 1989 achieve the first success of national projection "Entre Tapas e Beijos", but instead erupted in 1991 with the song "Pense em Mim" along with other songs: "Desculpe mas eu vou chorar", I did not get to say goodbye, and many others. In 1998, the whole country followed the drama of the double when Leandro was diagnosed with cancer and died soon after. Goias also appears another pair of backwoods brothers: Zezé de Camargo e Luciano, who scored hits like "É o Amor","Indiferença" and "Pare." Has also had success this decade: Roberta Miranda, Joao Paulo and Daniel, Sula Miranda, Cleiton and Camargo, Rio Negro and, Gian and Giovani.


Brazilian Pop Rock: The new direction of Brazilian pop rock becomes a factory of hits in that decade. Groups from different states across the country bursting, some strengthen the career and continue to sell many records today as: Skank, mining group which in 1994 erupted on the national circuit with hits like "Pacato Cidadão", "Resposta", "Uma Partida de Futebol", "Garota Nacional" Jota Quest: Another mining group, but with a pace more soul-music best known for the songs "As Dores do Mundo","Fácil" and many others; O Rappa: Grupo Rio with music more politicized and portraying the civil war that took care of Rio de Janeiro as the song "A Minha Alma"; Los Hermanos: Carioca band formed by students erupted with the song "Ana Julia", but the band's goal was the setting underground who won with the following discs, Black City, Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro led by Toni Garrido hits include "Onde Você Mora?", "Firmamento," "Pensamento", "O Erê" and "Sábado a Noite"; Pato Fu: with an experimental rock and ironic, the trio has released hits such as mining,"Sobre o Tempo","Canção para Você Viver Mais", "Depois"; Raimundos: Brasilia rockers, mixed the music and the foreign component the lyrics with double meaning, the taste of the audience with songs like "Pequena Raimunda," "Me Lambe", "Mulher de Fases" .
Other bands of the decade: Charlie Brown Jr, Planet Hemp, Chico Science and Nação Zumbi, Mundo Livre S / A.


Axé-Music, Funk and Pagode: Brazil met at the time the rhythm that drove the blocks of carnival in Bahia. Was successful in these years: Daniela Mercury with 'Nobre Vagabundo", "O Canto da Cidade", then led by Banda Eva Ivete Sangalo with "Beleza Rara", "Arerê"; Netinho Banda Kiss and with hits like "Mila","Menina","Peraê"; É o Tchan swept the country with songs like "Danca da Cordinha","Segura o Tchan", "Boquinha da Garrafa" and other songs with sexual appeals. Other bands like Olodum, Chiclete com Banana, Terrasamba, Banda Cheiro de Amor e Eagle Wing also led the pace for the rest of the country. Funk with his lyrics about the joys of both social protest echoed across all social classes, being represented by DJ Marlboro, Furacão 2000, Latino and Claudinho e Buchecha. At Pagode, music to cheer, dance, drink and regret the heartache animated the country and not come out of the mouths of the people with the groups Só pra Contrariar "Mineirinho", "A Barata" ; Raça Negra "Cigana"; Molejão "Brincadeira de Criança" and Negritude Jr: "Tanajura," among others.



We can not conclude this post with what has been perhaps the biggest phenomenon of the 90s. Composed of five young men from the city of Guarulhos Mamonas Assassinas group quickly became one of the biggest hits in music history. In the beginning was the band  Utopia, a rock with more intellectual, but with the additions of vocalist Dinho and his sense of humor, the band produced music with the purest nonsense in Brazilian rock. So fast its success was also its last, with a tragic accident, the band members died under one year of success and over two million copies sold of his single hard leaving his legacy in such hits as "Robocop Gay" "Pelados em Santos", "Vira-Vira" and "Sabão Crá-Crá".

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Créditos: Youtube, MixPod e Livro Almanaque Anos 90 de Silvio Essinger (página 10)

FASHION

The fashion of the 90s Had a "liberty" by the greatest designers of the time. For women like pieces of high-waisted pants, top lighter fabric (other than gymnastics Used today) blaser, Blouses With Transparency, high heels boots and squares. Legging pants with camisetonas gaiter and half Successful Were the most time to work in October
Already in the male ripped pants or not, starts shirts, jackets and sneakers Were faded almost "uniform." Extravagant prints of animals, plaid, striped and floral or basic black Were Also Successful in the decade. The style of the characters in the series Beverly Hills 90210 (Beverly Hills, Brazil) Was influential among adolescents.
Layered cuts to his shoulder giving an air of detachment or a cut just below the shoulder well armed (style poodle) complemented the look feminine, while the male HAD tidy hair with gel or Completely messed up.
The piercing Also erupted at the time.

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Credits: YouTube e MundoDasTribos.