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India ends economic Isolationism
Consequently, India's nuclear isolation constrained expansion of its civil nuclear war. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. Its destruction, which was nearly as instantaneous as its creation, was celebrated around the world. -
First website created.
The bare-bones website was created, appropriately, to explain the World Wide Web to newcomers. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Soviet economy was slowly becoming stagnant, whilst military spending went through the roof. -
First SMS text sent
On December 3rd 1992, a 22-year-old Canadian test engineer sat down and typed out a very simple message, "Merry Christmas." -
Netscape goes public
Netscape Communications stages a successful initial public ... with Netscape over a division of the browser market, Microsoft went over to the attack. -
Wal-Mart becomes the world's largest retailer.
Walmart is also the largest grocery retailer in the United States -
Y2K
Everyone thought all the computers were going to crash after the end of 1999. -
9/11
On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four U.S. airliners and carried out deadly attacks. -
China joins the WTO
China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) and opened its economy to the world, many Chinese commentators warned that the country was "dancing with wolves," laying itself bare to attack by ravenous competitors in a foolhardy and possibly fatal misstep. -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Indicates attacks resulting in over 100 deaths and indicates the deadliest attack in the Iraq War. -
Facebook created
Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. -
Youtube created.
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos -
Twitter created
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006, the site was launched. -
The Arab Spring
Arab Spring refers to the democratic uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world.
