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Wal-mart becomes largest retailer
The first Wal-mart was opened in 1962, and now, by screwing over it's employees, it is the most successful retailer in the world. -
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Sviet Union gave up power over Russia, and a new goverment was put into place. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The wall fell as Communism began to falter in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. The East German government announced people could cross anytime on the evening of November 9, 1989. -
India ends economic isolation
Leaders in New Delhi pursued policies of economic liberations that opened the country to foreign investment. -
First website
It was made by Tim Berners-Lee, in a lab in the Swiss Alps. It was made for fellow researchers to send information. -
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." It flew over the Vodafone network to the phone of one Richard Jarvis, and since then, we just haven't been able to stop texting. -
Netscape goes Public
Netscape created and sold the first web browser. When they went public, they couldn't trade stocks for the first two hours, because they were so popular. -
Y2K
During 1960s to late 80s there was a widespread practice in all computer softwares to use two digits for repreasenting a year rather than using 4 digits, done to save computer disk and memory space because these resources were relatively expensive in those times. As the 1990's approached experts began to realize this major shortcoming in the computer application softwares. In year 2000, the computer systems could interpret 00 as 1900 messing up all the computing work. For example if -
9/11
Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, and knocked both the Twin Towers down with aeroplanes. -
China joins WTO
Self-explainatory. -
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Operation Iraqi Freedom
The USA sent troops into Iraq. -
Facebook was created
Facebook, the ultimate timewaster. It was created to bring people together for money. -
YouTube created
YouTube was created to stream videos efficently, and was bought by Google a year later. Now you can't do jack because of Google+. (All Tony, not Nick) -
Twitter created
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters. Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. -
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Arab Spring
Freedom for Arabs around the world. Still ongoing. -
Completion of an around the world Fiber Optic Cable
TaTa communications completed an around-the-world fiber optic cable.
