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Wal-Mart becomes the world's largest retailer.
Wal-mart is the most powerful copmany of its kind. it has control over everything. -
The Arab Spring
series of revolts, social media was a major cause. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area. -
First website created
Berners-Lee published the world's first website from a lab in the Swiss Alps.the world's first website can still be visited today, more than two decades after its creation. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
acknowledging the independence of the erstwhile Soviet republics and creating the Commonwealth of Independent States. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, resigned, declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers – including control of the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes – to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. -
First SMS text sent
The first SMS message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom.from Neil Papworth of Sema Group using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an Orbitel 901 handset. it read "merry christmas" -
Netscape goes public
American computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator. Netscape's web browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the so-called first browser war. -
Y2K
people thought that the world was going to end. and that the computers would take over the world. -
India ends economic Isolationism
india ended its economic isolationism in its country. -
9/11
terriost hijacked someplanes and crashed them into the twin towers -
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. -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
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Facebook created
Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. -
youtube created
allows people to share and watch videos -
Twitter created.
is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets. -
Completion of an around the world Fiber Optic Cable.
the world is now connected throught a huge steam of fiber optic cables.
