🧠 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 June 16, 1993
Full News Archive
- Headline: Revitalizing Brooklyn's Historic Gas Company Site. Impact: If this building becomes a hip coffee shop or artisan market, you can bet that in 30 years, hipsters will be fighting over overpriced lattes and artisanal toast in what was once a gas company. Ah, the irony of progress!. Fact: Brooklyn's real estate market is so hot that it could probably power a small city on the sheer energy of gentrification alone. Who knew gas could be so trendy?.
- Headline: Metropolitan Golf Report Highlights. Impact: Mark Mielke and Ed Whitman qualifying for the U.S. Open might seem trivial, but if they win, it could spark a golf renaissance in the metropolitan area, leading to a bizarre golf-themed reality show in 2040. Picture it: 'The Real Golfers of Long Island.'. Fact: Golf: the only sport where the most exciting thing that can happen is someone quietly walking away with a trophy and a few more wrinkles..
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