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Counting since Monday, January 1, 1990.
January 1, 1990 marked the start of a decade that would see the end of the Cold War, the rise of the World Wide Web, grunge, Friends, and the dawn of the internet age.
Fast facts
- The Berlin Wall had fallen just eight weeks earlier.
- The 1990s saw Nirvana's Nevermind (1991), the public launch of the Web (1991), and Y2K (2000).
- Average US gas price in 1990: about $1.16 per gallon.
- The decade ended with the dot-com bubble at its peak.