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.