About the book
Important features and realities of contemporary life can be traced to 1995 and its watershed moments. Those moments are examined in engaging detail in 1995: The Year the Future Began.
The year marked the emergence of the Internet and World Wide Web into mainstream consciousness, an emergence propelled by such events as the dramatic initial public offering of Netscape Communications, the Silicon Valley startup that made an immensely popular Web browser.
It also was a year of major watersheds, including:
- the Oklahoma City bombing, an attack that killed 168 people and signaled a deepening national preoccupation with terrorism
- the sensational “Trial of the Century,” in which O.J. Simpson answered charges of double murder
- the Dayton Peace Accords, when the United States brokered an agreement ending the war in Bosnia, which was, to that time, Europe’s most vicious conflict since World War II
- the beginnings of the affair between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern 27 years his junior — an affair that led to Clinton’s impeachment.
According to author W. Joseph Campbell, “The fingerprints of 1995, are all over the present.”
