Description: Examines five watershed moments of a decisive year in the recent American past. It's a provocative new book by media scholar W. Joseph Campbell
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Campbell's book, his sixth, explores a hinge moment of the recent American past.
The year 1995 marked the emergence of the Internet and World Wide Web into mainstream consciousness, propelled by events such as the dramatic initial public offering of Netscape Communications, the Silicon Valley startup that made an immensely popular Web browser. It also was the year of these major watersheds :
Important features and realities of contemporary life can be traced to 1995 and its watershed moments. "The fingerprints of 1995," Campbell says, "are all over the present." FAQs about 1995 Read Chapter One TALKING 1995