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  1. The Internet's takeover of the global communication landscape was rapid in historical terms: it only communicated 1% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunications networks in the year 1993, 51% by 2000, and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007.

  2. Jan 10, 2024 · The Internet has been around for longer than you might think. The first email was sent way back in 1971, and computers first started to digitally share information in 1983. By the 1990s, it had ...

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  4. 1998: Nagano, Japan: Winter Olympics: Women’s ice hockey debuted at this Olympics: 2000: Sydney, Australia: Summer Olympics: Steve Redgrave won a fifth consecutive gold medal in rowing. 2002: Salt Lake City, USA: Winter Olympics: Despite members of the IOC accepting sweetners from the NOC Salt Lake City did not lose the right to stage these ...

  5. 1904 St. Louis Olympics. The Games of the III Olympiad were held in St. Louis, Mo. from August to September 1904. Due to tensions from the Russo-Japanese War and complications in getting to the United States, only 62 of the 650 athletes who competed came from outside North America. Only 12 to 15 nations were represented.

  6. The 1988 Summer Olympics (Korean: 1988년 하계 올림픽), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad (제24회 올림픽경기대회) and commonly known as Seoul 1988 (서울 1988), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represented at the games by a total of 8,391 athletes (6,197 men and 2,194 women ...

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    • Seoul, South Korea
  7. Jul 30, 2010 · Today, almost one-third of the world’s 6.8 billion people use the internet regularly. After Sputnik’s launch, many Americans began to think more seriously about science and technology.

  8. Bringing together athletes from all over the world for a major celebration of sport every four years, the Olympic Games. Women finally allowed to take part in the Olympics The first Olympic Games of the modern era took place in Athens, in the country where the original Games took place in Antiquity, in April 1896 .