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Fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall started coming down on November 9th 1989 -
The First Website Created
On August 6, 1991 -- 21 years ago -- Berners-Lee published the world's first website from a lab in the Swiss Alps. The early images from 1991 were never saved--however a later version from 1992 is still up and running and open for the public to visit -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration number 42 142-H of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. -
First SMS Text
The first Commercial text message was sent December 1992 -
Netscape goes public
The company's first product was the web browser, called Mosaic Netscape 0.9, released on October 13, 1994. The usage share of Netscape had fallen from over 90-percent in the mid-1990s to less than one-percent by the end of 2006. -
Y2K
The great Y2K scare is what it was called. The scare was that all of our computer systems around the world would cease to function on December 31, 1999. -
9/11
The Twin Towers fell on September 11th, 2001 -
China Joins the UTO
China's entry is expected to boost economic reforms started in the world's most populous nation more than 20 years ago and open the huge market to the rest of the world. -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the U.S.-led coalition military operation in Iraq, was launched on. March 20, 2003. This destroyed Iraq's ability to make weapons of mass destruction or have them available to terrorists -
Facebook created
Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. -
Youtube Created
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos. -
Twitter Created
witter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day (Launched July 2006) -
The Arab Spring
The Arab Spring is the media term for a revolutionary wave of nonviolent and violent demonstrations, violent and nonviolent protests, riots, and civil wars in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010. Numerous factors have led to the protests, including issues such as dictatorship or absolute monarchy, human rights violations, political corruption (demonstrated by Wikileaks diplomatic cables), economic decline, unemployment, extreme poverty, and a number of demographic structural factor -
India Ends Economic Isolationism
January 13. 2011 -
Walmart becomes the world's largest retailer
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), branded as Walmart, is an American multinational retail corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's third largest public corporation, according to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2012, the biggest private employer in the world with over two million employees, and is the largest retailer in the world. -
Completion of an Around the World fiber optic cable
The completion of the final link across Egypt enables Tata Communications to offer its customers unique access to a wholly-owned express route cable from Europe to India with improved latency, redundancy and scalability. In conjunction with the company's recently launched TGN-Gulf these routes will cater to the increasing demand for voice, video and data services in and out of the Gulf region.
