Hyper/Karis's Journal

What are the three you have so far?

The ones I can think of are related to pop culture. Some of these just seem like notable events, rather than influential events:
The invention of the iPod.
Halle Berry becomes the first black woman to win the Oscar for Best leading actress.
Founding of Google.
Pokemon franchise enters the North American market (I'm completely serious).
The dot-com crash (mainly related to corporate and market culture).

9/11
Will post more when I think of them.

@Zenax Well, so far I have:
- 9/11
- Hurricane Katrina (the only weather disaster we're allowed to include)
- Tea Party movement

Hmm...maybe the founding of Google would be a good one, actually...

@Hypersonic Hum... how about Oklahoma city's bombing?

Dunno...I'll consider it. ^^;

Up to about 10 now. I'm starting to get on a roll. :3

-first black president
-the bush/gore election dispute
-an inconvenient truth
-super size me
-swine flu
-bird flu
-SARS
-Monica Lewinsky
-the iraq war
-the war in afghanistan

-the housing bubble and recession starting in 2008
-the gulf of mexico oil spill
-the exxon-valdez oil spill
-Space Ship One making the first commercial sub orbital space flight
-the oklahoma city bombing
-the branch davidian siege in waco, texas
-the canceling of the space shuttle program

This is easy XD

-the housing bubble and recession starting in 2008
-the gulf of mexico oil spill
-the exxon-valdez oil spill
-Space Ship One making the first commercial sub orbital space flight
-the oklahoma city bombing
-the branch davidian siege in waco, texas
-the canceling of the space shuttle program

This is easy XD

The Great Torrent Massacre of 2012? SOPA and the like?

-the international space station
-columbine and other school shootings
-the internet becoming widespread
-new music styles (grunge, modern rock, the dubstep movement)
-cell phones becoming wide spread

Video game related:
-Sega dies
-Sony and Microsoft enter the video game industry
-Graphics improvments change the standards for new consoles
-Wii becomes most popular system by appealing to casual gamers
-EA voted most hated company of 2011 by The Consumerist

The Pokemon video game series begins

-Hubble space telescope (launched in 1990, but it was useless until it was repaired in 1993, so I'd count it) opens our eyes to the universe
-Large Hadron Collider opens, allowing for previously impossible study of particle physics
-Water discovered on the moon
-Spirit and Opportunity rovers land on Mars
-Online dating becomes widespread
-Online everything becomes widespread (seriously, you can easily make a list of 35 just using things relating to the internet)

The Resistance.
Bacon.

-Use of drones becomes widespread in war, turning killing into a video game
-Use of video games for actual combat training is introduced
-Airbus releases the A-380, a direct competitor to the Boeing 747
-Boeing develops the 787 Dreamliner, the most modern passenger airliner
-Napster is introduced, allowing free downloads of music in MP3 format
-Facebook is introduced


This is fun o.o

Google's acquisition of YouTube.

-Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor melts down
-Gay marraige legalized in some states
-Iran refuses to end its nuclear program, sparking debate about possible intervention
-North Korea tests nuclear weapons
-CGI technology changes the standards for movie special effects

Okay, at this point it's getting a little bit difficult.

Originally Posted by Baron Brixius

Google's acquisition of YouTube.

Also the invention of Youtube.

SquareSoft and Enix merger in 2003. :/