What happened in the '90s?

Seriously: what happened in the '90s? When talking about Quintana Roo, there seems to be a ten-year gap from 1989 to about 1999; it seems to be a black hole of history, other than Saucony buying QR in 1995. Love them or hate them, without QR we would not have the wetsuit or tri-bike as we know it. Dan, care to chime in? I want to hear the rest of the story.