As late as 1993, high-tech paraphernalia like computers, printers and video games had a negligible effect on power usage. Today, it's estimated to account for more than 13 percent of a typical household energy budget. By 2020, it could be as much as 25 percent
CERN released the World Wide Web software into the public domain in 1993, and Tim Berners-Lee chose not to patent it, which helped the web spread worldwide.
After the Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990, scientists discovered that its main mirror was slightly misshapen. Astronauts fixed it with corrective optics in 1993.