technology timeline by Alexxus Powell _ Student - NorthGarnerMS

The World Trade Organization is founded January 1, 1995

agpowell21 — 2024-01-10 18:21:48 UTC

The WTO began life on 1 January 1995, but its trading system is half a century older. Since 1948, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) had provided the rules for the system.

The Printing Press is invented

agpowell21 — 2024-01-10 18:22:16 UTC

German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg is credited with inventing the printing press around 1436, although he was far from the first to automate the book-printing process.

Facebook launches

agpowell21 — 2024-01-10 18:22:42 UTC

Feb. 4, 2004

Facebook, initially titled as thefacebook.com and limited to Harvard students, launched on Feb. 4, 2004. In 2006, Facebook became open to general public

Cambridge Analytica goes bankrupt

agpowell21 — 2024-01-10 18:23:11 UTC

The embattled political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica announced on Wednesday that it would cease most operations and file for bankruptcy amid growing legal and political scrutiny of its business practices and work for Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign.

The Battle of Thermopylae ends in defeat for the Greeks

agpowell21 — 2024-01-10 18:23:39 UTC

Although the Persians won at Thermopylae and conquered central Greece, they suffered considerable losses in the battle, and most of the Greek troops and ships were able to escape to the Isthmus of Corinth to rejoin the main Greek forces

The Battle of the Somme begins

agpowell21 — 2024-01-10 18:24:07 UTC

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most bitterly contested and costly battles of the First World War, lasting nearly five months. Despite this, it is often the first day of the battle that is most remembered. The offensive began on 1 July 1916 after a week-long artillery bombardment of the German lines.

An atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki

agpowell21 — 2024-01-10 18:24:42 UTC

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively.