19602005

19602005 is a compact designation that commonly refers to the period from 1960 through 2005. It is not a formal era in the standard sense, but the string appears in archives, data sets, and media to mark the long arc of late 20th-century history through the early 21st century.

During these years, political life was shaped by the Cold War's late phase, decolonization closures, and transformative events such as the civil rights movement in the United States, the Vietnam War, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The 1990s saw rapid globalization, the expansion of markets, and the rise of information technology, including the commercial expansion of the Internet and the World Wide Web after 1991, the founding of Google in 1998, and the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003. The early 2000s were defined by continued digital innovation and geopolitical shifts, including the EU enlargements in 2004.

Social and cultural life also transformed, with mass media convergence, the emergence of digital entertainment, and significant changes in labor and consumer markets as economies shifted toward services and knowledge-based industries. The period culminates around the mid-2000s in a moment of ongoing transition as governments, institutions, and societies adapted to rapid technological change and global interconnectedness.