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Wal-Mart becomes the world's largest retailer
In october of 1969 wal mart opened up its first reatail store. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Loopholes in the german law made people begin to revolt the Berlin Wall. In september germans began to protest and is this is know as the "Peacefull Revolution". The protest grew into november. On November 9th, 1989 the wall was abolished and eat and west were reunited. -
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Y2K
In year 2000, the computer systems could interpret 00 as 1900 messing up all the computing work. For example if a program function is calculating difference between two dates, it would calculate a negative number. For example difference between 1 Jan 2000 and 31 Dec 1999 could be calculated as -100 years rather than 1 day. -
First website ever created
The site was created to explain the World Wide Web to all new comers. Created by Tm Berners-Lee -
Dissolution Of Soviet Union
Soviet Union Collapses for victory of freedom in the west. -
First website created
The first txt was sent on demeber 3rd 1992 by Neil Papworth -
Netscape Goes Public
Netscape makes a ublic internet search engine for all age groups from 8 years old to hammys age (i think 85 judging by the bald spot.) -
Completion of an around the world Fiber Optic Cable
A long submarine comunications cable that contains optical fiber that connects countries around the globe. -
9/11
On the morning of september 11 2001 one the world trade centers were attacked by a terroist group. -
China joins the WTO
Trade ministers from across the world have officially approved China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) after 15 years of negotiations. The move was approved unanimously at the WTO's ministerial meeting in the Gulf state of Qatar on Saturday and brings a market of 1.3 billion people into the global trading system. 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
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Facebook Created
Couple of college kids created facebook from Harvard University. They made it to only be for Harvard students but due to popularity it largley spread. there are currently one billion users to this day. -
Youtube created
he YouTube domain name was activated on 14 February 2005.YouTube is a video sharing site that allows users to upload and display video files from their own lives. -
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Twitter created.
Twitter was crwated sometime in march 2006 but did not launch till july 2006. THere are about 500 million active users as of 2012. A student at a college intreduced the idea of an individual using SMS service to communicate with a small group. -
The Arab Spring
