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The Arab Spring
The Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests (both non-violent and violent), riots, and civil wars in the Arab world. The Arab Spring has often been described as a wave of popular uprisings against an oppressive rule. -
walmart becomes worlds biggest retailer
The company’s extreme growth did not occur without controversy. It focused its early growth in rural areas, thereby avoiding direct competition with retailing giants such as Sears and Kmart. As it grew, the company developed new retail formats, including Sam’s Club discount warehouses (1983) and Wal-Mart Supercenters (1988). -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The barrier divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It prevented all such emigration. It divided by East and West. -
India ends economic Isolation
Until 1991, all Indian governments followed protectionist policies that were influenced by socialist economics. Widespread state intervention and regulation largely walled the economy off from the outside world. -
First Website Created
Tim Berners Lee published teh worlds first website from a lab in the Swiss Alps. Explaining the World Wide Web project and giving information on how users could setup a web server and how to create their own websites and web pages, as well as how they could search the web for information -
Dissolution of The Soviet Union
The outcome was the dissolution of the Soviet Union into independent republics. Also signaled the end of the Cold War. -
First SMS ever sent
Canadian test engineer Neil Papworth sent a text from one of Vodafone's massive computers to Richard Jarvis, a Vodafone director. -
Netscape goes public
The companys first product was the web browser called Mosaic Netscap 0.9. Netscape was the 1st company to attempt to capitalize on the nascent Worl Wide Web. -
Y2K
Y2K was a problem for both digitial and non digital documentation and data storage situation which resulted from the practice of abbreviating a 4 digit year to 2 digits. Also known as year 2000 problem or the Millennium Bug -
9/11
The attacks killed 2,996 people (including 19 hijackers) and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists to be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. -
China joins WTO
It signified China's deeper integration into the world economy. The admission of China to the WTO was preceded by a lengthy process of negotiations and required significant changes to the Chinese economy. -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom was the largest of several active fronts in the Bush administration's War on Terrorism. Operation Iraqi Freedom began on 3 March 2003 with the removal of the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein by a "Coalition of the Willing" led by the United States and allies including the United Kingdom. -
Facebook was Created
It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area. -
Youtube was created
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site. -
Twitter was Created
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and launched by July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users who in 2012 posted 340 million tweets per day. -
Completion of an around the world Fiber Optic Cable
Connects the United Kingdom, Japan, and many places in between. The cable is operated by Global Cloud Xchange.
