🧠 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 May 20, 1993
Full News Archive
- Headline: The Art of Bleaching Furniture Wood. Impact: The bleaching of furniture wood led to an increased demand for lighter-colored wood, which in turn caused a massive deforestation crisis in the 18th century. Who knew that a little touch-up could have such a 'nature'-al disaster?. Fact: Did you know that the original intention of whitewashing was to keep pests away? Imagine if we could just bleach our problems away in real life..
- Headline: Exploring Design Trends at ICFF 2023. Impact: The International Contemporary Furniture Fair's obsession with automotive lacquer inadvertently inspired a generation of furniture designers to start treating their chairs like cars. Now we have seats that not only recline but can also go zero to sixty in 3.5 seconds.. Fact: Here's a thought: if your chair could drive, would it also complain about the traffic, or just enjoy the ride like the rest of us?.
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