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Fall Of the Berlin Wall
East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the wall, Where they celabrated the Defeat -
Economic liberalisation in India
Started on 24 July 1991. After Independence in 1947 India adhered to socialist policies. Attempts were made to liberalize economy in 1966 and 1985. -
First Website
August 6, 1991 it was set up by Tim Berners-Lee to help explain what the internet was and how to use it -
Dissolution of Soviet Union
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned,gave the Soviet launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. -
First Text Message
Neil Papworth sent the first text saying merry christmas -
Netscape Goes Public
Once dominate web browser from the mid 90s which was slowly over taken by Internet Explorer and killed in 2008 -
Y2K
All the computer codes were supposed to fail because the were typed in like '99 instead of 1999 so all of the computers were supposed to restart and cause a big problem -
9/11
9/11 was a series of four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. areas on September 11, 2001. -
China joins the WTO
AFter 15 years China joins the WTO the moce was approved unannamously at the WTO ministerial meeting -
Walmart
Wal-Mart, a chain of discount stores started by Sam Walton in 1962, is the nation’s largest retailer. In 2002, it was listed for the first time as America's largest corporation on the Fortune 500 list, with revenues of $219.8 billion and profits of $6.7 billion. It has remained there every year, except for 2006 and 2009 -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Was an operation to get Saddam out of power. It was announced 90 minutes he announced that he was supposed to exile him and his sons from Iraq. -
Facebook Created
Mark Zuckerberg created facebook with his harvard dorm mates in his dorm room. -
Youtube
Youtube was started with an invesment of 11.5 million and was founded by chad hurley steve chen jawed karim. The first video was called "Me at the Zoo" -
Arab Spring
Redvolutionary wave of demonstrations protests and wars that occured in the Arab world. This was to keep the ruling families in power -
Completion of an around the world Fiber Optic Cable
Tata Communications announces the completion of the world's first round-the-world fibre optic cable network. The cable connects Europe to India, through Egypt, bringing increased capacity, resilience and enhanced communications links to not only the Middle East, but to the rest of the world.
