Things in your lifetime that have been "global"

teachercd

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So, clearly Corona.

I don't really count Ebola or bird flu or swine flu.

In my life, the only other thing I can think that was this big of a deal was Y2K.

Any of you guys got any others?

Maybe the housing bubble bursting?  

 
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knapplc said:
The wedding of Charles & Diana.

Desert Storm

9/11

Obama's election

The premiere of Avengers: Endgame
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9/11, great call.

I didn't think of movies...but When I was a kid one of the Star Trek movies came out and we happened to be by a theater.  The line must have wrapped around the entire building, it was unreal.

I don't really remember the wedding...I remember when she died.  That was crazy huge.

 
Could you imagine Y2K with the social media we have now?  My god, I mean...we were already thinking it was going to be like going back to the stone age...

 
1990 [SIZE=11pt]— the Internet (sure it "started" in 1983.  But wasn't widely used until about 1990)[/SIZE]

[SIZE=11pt]2004 — Facebook[/SIZE] 

 
The Macarena

EDIT - also, Oppa Gangam Style or whatever that song was called

Everyone in the world heard these songs. Crazy.

 
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Landlord said:
Curious what you mean by this one. Facebook was exclusively for Harvard, then for Ivy League schools and a few others in 2004. Was still exclusively only accessible via college email until 2007 I think.
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Yeah, since you were born after 2007 I guess it doesn't apply to you.  

 
I know we are all thinking it but I will say it...

Nude girls on the internet (plus a super slow connection at the dorms at UNL) made for some interesting times!

I am going to throw CD's on the list...I was really into tapes (not as much records) but CD's were a game changer...a short one...but still.

 
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