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Own every card of 1991.
The Gulf War begins in January and television brings the air strikes into every living room. In the Balkans, Yugoslavia starts to break apart. In August a Finnish student announces a small free operating system written as a hobby. It is a year that sets up much of the decade.
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France Télécom
A mobile phone that only worked near a street terminal. It could call out only close to a public base station where its owner had registered. From 1991 it was France's first phone for people on the move in town. Taking calls cost extra, with the Bi-Bop Réponse option.
Photo: Rama (CC BY-SA 3.0 fr)
Philips
More than a console, less than a computer: Philips' machine played games, audio CDs, karaoke, Photo CDs and Video CDs on an ordinary TV. It reached French shops in September 1992. Seen by the public as a games console, it flopped and drove Philips out of video games.
Photo: Evan-Amos (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Sega
Its development was so secret that the programmers did not know which product their games were for until it appeared at the Tokyo Toy Show. This CD-ROM drive for Sega's home console came out in Japan in late 1991. In the United States its price put players off.
Photo: Evan-Amos (Public domain)
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