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Fall of the Berlin Wall!
The official dismantling of the Berlin Wall began by East Germany. -
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India Ends Economic Isolationism
India becomes a powerhouse in the globalized world, becoming more industrial and playing a bigger part in the world. -
First Website Ever!
Created by Tim Berners-Lee a website for CERN was created to explain the World Wide Web to newcomers. -
Dissolution of Soviet Union
The Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union officially declared the independence of all fifteen countries that were a part of the Union. -
First SMS sent
First text message was sent in the UK through a computer, the message was "Merry Christmas." -
Netscape Goes Public!!!!
Netscape allowed almost anyone to navigate through the internet without many problems. -
Fiber Optic Link Around the World
The Fiber Optic link aroudn the World was the worlds first single-cable network, that provides infrastructure for the next gen Internet applications. -
Y2K
A day that caused panic because computers weren't programmed to recognize the 2000s, which would cause problems. -
9/11
A series of 4 cooridinated suicide attacks on the U.S. Showed how globalization enables not only countries, but also terrorist organizations. -
China joins the WTO
China abandons isolationism and joins the rest of the world in the World Trade Organization. This allowed China to become a huge manufacturing and trade juggernaut. -
Walmart becomes worlds largest retailer
Walmart reaches revenues of $244.52 billion making them the worlds largest ratailer. -
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Operation Iraqi Freedom
The Iraq war, also known as the war on terror, was the search for Hussein, and WMD's in Iraq. Ultimately Hussein was found, no WMD's were. -
Facebook created
A social networking sight created by Mark Zuckerberg and his room mates at Harvard. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users. -
Youtube created
Created by 3 former Paypal employees is a service that allows people to share videos, in 2006 Google bought youtube. -
Twitter created
made by Jack Dorsey it is a microblogging website with over 500 million active users as of 2012. -
Arab Spring
a group of protests and war occuring over in the Arabic area of the world. Still going on today.
