What the World Looked Like 10 Years Ago Today
By Sean ~ December 30th, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized.
Foreign Policy has a reall interesting pice about what was going on today (Dec 29th) in 1999. Looking back on it it looks almost like a different world. Some examples:
- Something called Inktomi was the world’s largest search engine.
- Everybody was clamoring for the new file-sharing program Napster
- llinois State Senator Barack Obama campaigned for a spot in the House of Representatives.
- Boris Yeltsin was preparing to step down and make way for the young pragmatist Vladimir Putin
- You could meet your loved ones at their arrival gate.
- China’s GDP was $1.4 trillion, half of Germany’s.
- Beltway pundits believed Al Gore and George W. Bush were centrists who would govern similarly.
