🧠 Inventions of 1993
Breakthroughs and everyday innovations from the year.
1 
Graphical Web Browser (Mosaic)
2 
MP3 Audio Compression Standard
3 
Search Engine Concept
4 
Java Programming Language
5 
Digital Mobile Camera
6 
Online Banking Systems
7 
Computer Firewall Concept
8 
Touchpad Input Device
9 
Real-Time Strategy Video Game
10 
Medical MRI Software Advances
The Sounds of
The biggest hits of the year — Top 10 Pop & Country chart toppers
HEADLINES ON March 25, 1993
Full News Archive
- Headline: Good Fences, Good Neighbors in Property Disputes. Impact: If only the neighbors had known that their petty disputes over property lines would inspire a global movement for personal space, perhaps we wouldn't have the concept of 'buffer zones' or even the invention of the fence itself! Who knew a wooden barrier could change international relations?. Fact: Did you know that the phrase 'Good fences make good neighbors' was popularized by Robert Frost? Guess he was tired of borrowing sugar from the wrong side of the fence..
Wall Street Time Machine
The Right Call: If you'd invested $1,000 in any one of these companies in 1993, here's what it would be worth in 2025.
Rank #3
ORCL
Oracle
Price in 1993
$0.57
Value in 2025
$317,737
Oracle - If you invested $1,000 in 1993, it would be worth $317,737 today (317.7x return)
🦸 Top 5 Comics
Spawn #1
$60
300 #1
$300
The Maxx #1
$80
Preacher #1
$75
H-E-R-O #1
$95
🧸 Top 5 Toys
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Action Figures
$150.00
Beetleborgs Action Figures
$150.00
Super Soaker CPS 2000
$250.00
Creepy Crawlers Oven
$200.00
Street Fighter II Figures
$32.00
🎮 Top 5 Video Games
Doom
$200.00
Myst
$130.00
Secret of Mana
$149.00
Star Fox
$150.00
Day of the Tentacle
$45.00
⚾ Top 5 Trading Cards
Magic: The Gathering Alpha Black Lotus
$500,000
Magic: The Gathering Alpha Ancestral Recall
$30,000
Magic: The Gathering Alpha Mox Sapphire
$108,000
Magic: The Gathering Alpha Mox Jet
$108,000
Magic: The Gathering Alpha Mox Ruby
$108,000