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The Arab Spring
The Arab Spring has been described as a wave of popular uprisings against an oppressive rule . Some started to refer to the succeeding, and still ongoing large-scale discourse conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa as the Arab Winter. -
Wal-Mart becomes the world's largest retailer.
Walmart is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and warehouse stores. It has over 11,000 stores in 27 countries, under a total 71 banners. -
Fall Of The Berlin Wall
The Fall Of The Berlin Wall fell as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe. The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin fromk 1961-1989. -
India ends economic Isolationism
All Indian governments followed protectionist policies that were influenced by socialist economics in 1991. Widespread state intervention and regulation largely walled the economy off from the outside world. -
First website created.
Berners Lee published the worlds first website from a lab in the Swiss Alps. The website was created to explain the World Wide Web to new comers. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
It was formally enacted on December 26, 1991 as a result of the declaration no. 142-H of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union acknowledging the independence of the erstwhile Soviet republics. -
First SMS text sent
A 22-year-old Canadian test engineer sat down and typed out a very simple message, "Merry Christmas." Texting is a major staple of communication now, and by far the main use of a phone for many. exts where just a way to send network notifications, namely to let you know you had a voice-mail. In 1993, Nokia became the first company to make GSM handsets capable of person-to-person texting, but it still didn't become popular for several years. -
Completion of an around the world Fiber Optic Cable.
FLAG is a 28,000-kilometer-long optical fiber mostly-submarine communications cable that connects the United Kingdom, Japan, and many places in between. -
Netscape goes public
Netscape Communications staged a successful initial public offering, making it one of the first companies to capitalize on the growing WWW. -
Y2K
The Year 2000 was also known as the Millenium Bug. It was a problem for both digital, and non digital documentation and data storage situations which resulted from the practice of abbreviating a four-digit year to two digits. -
9/11
19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked 4 commercial U.S jetliners, crashing two planes into the North and South towers World Trade Center and a 3rd plane into the Pentagon. -
China joins the WTO
The admission of China to the WTO was preceded by a lengthy process of negotiations and required significant changes to the Chinese economy. the U.S. had a great interest in China because it was one of the fastest growing markets for U.S. goods and services. -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Media reports stated that the website was taken offline because of security concerns regarding the posting of sophisticated diagrams and other information regarding nuclear weapon design prior to the 1991 Persian Gulf war. -
Facebook created
Zuckerberg launched "The facebook", as it was originally known; the name taken from the sheets of paper distributed to freshmen, profiling students and staff. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate population had a profile. -
Youtube created.
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.Three former PayPal employees in February 2005 created it. -
Twitter created.
witter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and launched by July 2006. Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."
