Did the World Really Come Together in 1995?

An American shuttle docked with a Russian space station. Two weeks later, more than 8,000 men and boys were killed in a UN "safe area". In November, a prime minister was shot at a peace rally. The Cold War was over, and 1995 looked like the year the world would finally connect. The World Trade Organization opened, the internet's US government backbone was switched off and handed to private networks, Windows 95 arrived, and Atlantis docked with Mir. But in Bosnia, peace came only after the Srebrenica genocide, and the year also brought the Oklahoma City bombing, the Tokyo subway sarin attack and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. We follow four clues: a rulebook for trade, a network for everyone, a handshake in orbit and a peace that came too late. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:22 The question 0:49 The Rulebook 1:41 The Network 2:46 The Handshake 3:39 The Safe Area 4:56 The Peace 5:48 The Enemy Within 6:32 A Song for Peace 7:27 The answer The Long Answer: one question, eight minutes, the whole story. History, science, technology and strange events, explained clearly for curious people. Got a question you want answered? Leave it in the comments. More on the channel: our films on Bosnia and Herzegovina and on the World Wide Web go deeper into two of this year's stories. Sources Narration based on the English Wikipedia articles "1995", "World Trade Organization", "1995 enlargement of the European Union", "Schengen Agreement", "National Science Foundation Network", "Windows 95", "Shuttle–Mir program", "STS-71", "Srebrenica massacre", "Operation Deliberate Force", "Dayton Agreement", "Oklahoma City bombing" and "Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin" (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo credits (Wikimedia Commons) Alexey M. (CC BY-SA 4.0) – Geneva from the air Thomas Woodtli (CC BY-SA 2.0) – Lake Geneva kallerna (CC BY-SA 4.0) – Lake Geneva at dusk Petar Milošević (CC BY-SA 4.0) – Container ship, Koper Downtowngal (CC BY-SA 4.0) – Port of Los Angeles H. Zell (CC BY-SA 3.0) – Container terminal, Bremerhaven Eric Kilby (CC BY-SA 2.0) – Port Jersey Thijs ter Haar (CC BY 2.0) – EU flags KenSwe72 (CC BY 4.0) – Berlaymont building, Brussels Marek Ślusarczyk (Tupungato) (CC BY 3.0) – Flags at the European Parliament Asurnipal (CC BY-SA 4.0) – Schengen castle, Luxembourg Santeri Viinamäki (CC BY-SA 4.0) – Border sign, Tornio HorsePunchKid (CC BY-SA 3.0) – NCSA, Illinois Daniel Schwen (CC BY-SA 4.0) – Blue Waters data centre Joe Shlabotnik (CC BY 2.0) – Using a computer, 1995 TIM Archivio Storico (CC BY-SA 2.0) – Computer workstation Cathode Ray Dude (CC BY 3.0) – HP Vectra PC Bortzmeyer (derivative) (CC BY-SA 3.0) – US Robotics Courier modem Jphill19 (CC BY-SA 4.0) – US Robotics 33.6K modem NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský (CC BY 4.0) – Server racks Jiaqian AirplaneFan (CC BY 3.0) – Microsoft Building 92 Jacek Halicki (CC BY-SA 4.0) – Floppy disks Christian Maréchal (CC BY 3.0) – Sniper screens, Sarajevo Jelle Visser (CC BY 2.0) – Srebrenica Michael Büker (CC BY-SA 3.0) – Srebrenica–Potočari cemetery; Wall of names, Potočari miketnorton (CC BY 2.0) – Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Paul Katzenberger (CC BY-SA 3.0) – Graves at Potočari ICTY (CC BY 2.0) – ICTY building, The Hague; Ratko Mladić at the ICTY w_lemay (CC BY-SA 2.0) – Field of empty chairs; Oklahoma City National Memorial Ted Taber (CC BY-SA 3.0) – Reflecting pool and gates Tokyo Fire Department (CC BY 4.0) – Tokyo Fire Department, 1995 Japan Ministry of Defense (CC BY 3.0) – Tokyo, March 1995 Yosi Rot (CC BY 4.0) – Yitzhak Rabin Gideon Markowiz (CC BY 4.0) – Clinton, Rabin and King Hussein, 1994 Saar Yaacov, GPO (CC BY-SA 3.0) – Arafat, Peres and Rabin, 1994 Andrew Nash (CC BY-SA 2.0) – Rabin Square Zeev Stein (CC BY-SA 4.0) – Rabin memorial, Tel Aviv Tsvika Israeli (CC BY-SA 3.0) – Rabin's family at the funeral Deror avi (CC BY-SA 3.0) – Rabin's grave, Mount Herzl Ynhockey (CC BY-SA 4.0) – Tel Aviv skyline Yaakov Saar (CC BY-SA 3.0) – Yitzhak Rabin, 1994 Israel Press and Photo Agency (Dan Hadani Archive) (CC BY 4.0) – Yitzhak Rabin, 1995