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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.
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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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 ...
By hosting the 19th Winter Games, Utah, an Indian word meaning “home on mountain top,” joins California, Georgia, Missouri and New York as the only U.S. states to host the Olympics. The 2002 Games will mark the end of Salt Lake City's long quest to host the games, a story that included failed bids in 1972, 1976 and 1998.
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.
The Olympic Games are held every four years; since 1994, they have been alternated between the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years during the four-year period. Their creation was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games, held in Olympia, Greece from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD.
Jun 21, 2007 · June 21, 2007. The Internet Circa 1998. By Susannah Fox. A reporter’s inquiry about what the internet was like in the late 1990s sent me to the Pew Research Center archives for what turned out to be an amusing look back at some internet history. Here is what I found: 1996: 23% of adults went online. 1997: 36% of adults went online.
