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Temperature Rise
The Ice covering the Arctic has decreased by 2% in the last 10 years. -
Web Browser
Tim Berners-Lee introduces the web browser. -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the "World Wide Web." -
The American Galileo
The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid. -
Airbag Invention
Airbag were invented by Geoffrey L Mahon and Allen Breed -
Internet
Internet is made available to unrestricted commercial use and number of computers on the net reaches 1 million. -
Technology advances in 1992
-Windows 3.1 released by Microsoft
-Microsoft Works released by Microsoft
-AT & T release video telephone for $1,499
-The first Nicotene patch is introduced to help stop smoking
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Beanie Babies
Ty Warner USA launches the first Beanie Babies- a favorite of mine when I was younger. -
1993 Technology
-The World Wide Web was born at CERN
-The first cloning of a Human Embryo by 2 American Scientists
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Dow Jones important event
Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for the first time. -
Technology in 1995
- DVD, optical disc storage media format, is announced.
- Windows 95 released by Microsoft
- JavaScript was first introduced
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Technology in 1996
- Internet Explorer 3 web browser released
- Ebay started the online auction and shopping website, where people buy and sell goods and services worldwide
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Microsoft
- Microsoft becomes the worlds most valuable company valued at $261 billion dollars.
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Dow Jones
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time -
Largest Petroleum Company
The two oil companies Exxon and Mobil merge to create the worlds largest petroleum company
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Google
The Search Engine Google is founded. -
MySpace and Bluetooth introduced
- My Space was officially introduced to the Internet.
- Bluetooth announced.
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Y2K Problem
The year 2000 problem known as the Y2K problem and the millennium bug was the most important thing on most companies minds in 1999. Critical industries (such as electricity or financial) and government functions could stop working at 12:00 AM, January 1st , 2000. This fear was fueled by the press coverage and other media speculation, as well as corporate and government reports. All over the world companies and organizations checked and upgraded their computer systems. -
9/11
On September 11, 2001 Nineteen hijackers simultaneously took control of four U.S. domestic commercial airliners. The hijackers crashed two planes into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City one into each of the two tallest towers. Within two hours, both towers collapsed. The hijackers crashed the third aircraft into the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters, the Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed into a rural field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. -
Technology in 2001
- Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online.
- Microsoft releases Windows XP.
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Launch of Facebook
Facebook is launched as a social networking site only open to students from Harvard in February by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. It is expanded first to other colleges in the Boston area and other Ivy League Colleges. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina strikes the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastal areas flooding roughly 80% of the city of New Orleans and 1600 perished by Hurricane Katrina. -
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Financial Crisis/Recession
Ongoing financial crisis and recession which began in late 2007 continues with many calling it the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s causing house prices to decline, and unemployment to increase. In 2009 governments in the US and around the world pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system and into the economies hoping to avert another Great Depression and by the end of 2009 although unemployment had continued to increase, markets had recovered. -
Rescue Package Bill
President Bush signs the $700 billion bailout / Rescue package bill ( Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 ) and is signed into law. -
Affordable Care Act
The Healthcare Reform Bill / Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passes in Congress changing the face of healthcare in the US and is signed into law by President Barack Obama. -
Government Shutdown
US government shuts down.
