of curated bookmark homepage, were as popular as searching via web crawlers. The use of country specific web portals popularized the phrases netizen and global village. Many countries were economically prosperous and spreading globalization during the 1990s. High-income countries experienced steady economic growth throughout the majority of the decade during the Great Moderation. Using a mobile phone in a public place was typical conspicuous consumption in the decade. In contrast, the GDP of the states formed from the former Soviet Union declined, often as a result of economic restructuring and unstable national institutions. International trade increased with the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 and formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. The "dot-com frenzy" resulted in the dot-com bubble of 1997–2000 that brought great wealth to some entrepreneurs before its crash of the early-2000s. The economies of the Four Asian Tigers (Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong), ASEAN, and Japan were hampered by the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the Lost Decades, causing the resignation of President Suharto and the May 1998 riots in Indonesia, after 32 years of rule. New ethnic conflicts emerged, such as the Rwandan genocide in Africa, the Bosnian genocide in the Balkans, and several wars in the Chechen–Russian conflict in Caucasus. The Rwandan genocide was exacerbated by state sanctioned hate speech in traditional mainstream media, particularly radio broadcasting. Signs of any resolution of tensions between Israel and the Arab world remained elusive, despite the progress of the Oslo Accords. However, in Northern Ireland, The Troubles came to a standstill in 1998 with the Good Friday Agreement, putting to rest 30 years of violence. During this decade, the world population grew from 5.3 to 6.1 billion people. There were approximately 1.35 billion births and 525 million deaths. Politics and wars International wars The Congo Wars began in the 1990s. The First Congo War (October 24, 1996 – May 16, 1997) resulted in the overthrow of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, his 32 rule of Zaire, which was then renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Second Congo War (August 1998 – July 2003) started in Central Africa and involved multiple nearby nations. The Gulf War (August 2, 1990 – February 28, 1991). Iraq was left in severe debt after the Iran–Iraq War in the 1980s. President Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of flooding the oil market, therefore driving