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TAT-8 which connected the US with France and England using telephone cables across the Atlantic.
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The wall seperating communist, east berlin from capitalist, west berlin, was torn down unifying the country once again.
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After years of political and economical isolation, leaders in New Delhi pursued policies of economic cooperation with other countries.
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Tim Berners-lee published the first website
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Walmart expanded internationally. Two years after, they reached their first week with 1 billion dollars in company wide sales
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The Soviet Union after almost a century of disintegarated into 15 seperate countries.
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British engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS from his computer to his friends phone
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Netscape, a start up company in silicon valley went public starting shares at 28 dollars a share.
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With the new millenium came new digital problems dealing with data storage, practices of using two-digit time. People believed computers would crash andsociety would fall.
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Four planes were hijacked by the islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda, two hit the world trade center, one hit the pentagon, and one aiming for washington DC was overcome by the passengers in flight and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
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After years of communist isolationism China joined the World Trade Organization and now takes part in global economics.
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After the suspicion of WMD's in Iraq, the US launched operation Iraqi freedom to topple Saddam Hussein's control of the country.
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Mark Zuckerburg launched "TheFacebook" originally located at thefacebook.com
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Youtube was created by 3 former paypal employees and later bought by google in late 2006.
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By july 2006 the site was launched with the service rapdily gaining popularity worldwide
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A revolutionary wave of demonstrations, protest, riots, and civil wars in the Arab world.
