1990s: Misc

in the 1990s many users gained Internet access by using Slirp to emulate a TCP/IP connection via a dial-up shell account?
until the 1990s, the Heckler & Koch MP5 and the Uzi were the only weapons designed outside of the United States that were as widespread in Hollywood productions as the U.S.-produced Colt M1911 pistols, M16 assault rifles, Tommy Guns and revolvers?
Bill Barker's alien-infested Schwa artwork became such a hit in the 1990s that he eventually teamed with AOL to make an online game based on it?
The Happy Mutant Handbook might be the only book to chronicle a large number of underground subcultures of the 1980s and 1990s?
Central Asian Gypsies, often seen around Russian markets and railway stations in the 1990s were previously mistaken as Tajikistani refugees?
Tajikistan was one of the deadliest countries for journalists in the 1990s, with dozens of journalists killed, including Belarusian documentary filmmaker Arcady Ruderman and Bukharan Jewish journalist Meirkhaim Gavrielov?

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Jack Harkness drops by Powell Estate a few times, as Rose Tyler grows up. He does not dare do more for fear of creating time paradoxes. (DW: Utopia)

Doctor Who enters its long hiatus, broken in 1996 with the airing of an American co-produced television movie introducing Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor (with a substantial role by Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor). Intended as a pilot for a US-produced revival of Doctor Who, the film fails to garner high enough American ratings for this to happen.
The Target Novelisations line comes to an end in 1994.
In 1991, the first line of original Doctor Who novels, the Virgin New Adventures, is launched, followed by the Virgin Missing Adventures line and Decalog short story collections.
In 1997, BBC Books takes over the licence for original Doctor Who fiction and launches the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, BBC Past Doctor Adventures and Short Trips lines; Virgin, meanwhile, launches the Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures line.
Big Finish Productions launches an ongoing series of full-licenced audio dramas featuring past Doctors.
A number of independently made video and film productions are made, some featuring Doctor Who characters and monsters licenced from their creators, while others feature characters identical in all but name to the Doctor and others.
DVDs are released to the public. The format soon supercedes VHS videotape, and its compact nature makes it more practical for use in releasing complete TV series, with Doctor Who episodes beign released from the late 1990s onward.

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