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1991
 
    
Tim Berners-Lee, using CERN computers, puts online the first website at http://info.cern.ch       
1993
 
   
Work begins on China's ambitiious and controversial Three Gorges Dam project      
1994
 
     
France's President Mitterrand and the British queen Elizabeth II together open the tunnel under the English Channel        
1997
 
     
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Ph.D. students at Stanford University, register the domain name google.com        
1998
 
    
The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, linking Shikoku and Honshu in Japan, creates a new record as the longest suspension bridge       
2001
 
    
Wikipedia, the 'Free Encyclopedia', is put online by Jimmy Wales as an empty shell which members of the public are invited to fill with content       
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2005
 
   
The superjumbo Airbus A380 makes its first test flight from Toulouse      
2006
 
   
Structural work is completed on China's Three Gorges Dam, by far the largest hydroelectric dam in the world      
2006
 
    
Google pays $1.65 billion for the website YouTube, launched less than two years previously       
2010  April 20
 
    
An explosion destroys BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killing eleven people and starting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico