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Completion of around the world fiber optic cable
TAT-8 which connected the US with France and England using telephone cables across the Atlantic. -
Fall of the berlin wall
The wall seperating communist, east berlin from capitalist, west berlin, was torn down unifying the country once again. -
India ends economic isolationism
After years of political and economical isolation, leaders in New Delhi pursued policies of economic cooperation with other countries. -
The fIrst website is created
Tim Berners-lee published the first website -
Walmart becomes the worlds largest retailer
Walmart expanded internationally. Two years after, they reached their first week with 1 billion dollars in company wide sales -
The dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union after almost a century of disintegarated into 15 seperate countries. -
The first SMS sent
British engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS from his computer to his friends phone -
Netscape goes public
Netscape, a start up company in silicon valley went public starting shares at 28 dollars a share. -
Y2K
With the new millenium came new digital problems dealing with data storage, practices of using two-digit time. People believed computers would crash andsociety would fall. -
Spetember 11th
Four planes were hijacked by the islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda, two hit the world trade center, one hit the pentagon, and one aiming for washington DC was overcome by the passengers in flight and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. -
China joins WTO
After years of communist isolationism China joined the World Trade Organization and now takes part in global economics. -
Operation Iraqi freedom
After the suspicion of WMD's in Iraq, the US launched operation Iraqi freedom to topple Saddam Hussein's control of the country. -
Facebook
Mark Zuckerburg launched "TheFacebook" originally located at thefacebook.com -
Youtube
Youtube was created by 3 former paypal employees and later bought by google in late 2006. -
Twitter
By july 2006 the site was launched with the service rapdily gaining popularity worldwide -
Arab spring
A revolutionary wave of demonstrations, protest, riots, and civil wars in the Arab world.
