On March 19th, 2018, I turned 20 years old, so I figured it would be appropriate to discuss some of the world's biggest news stories over the last two decades. While there are obviously thousands of stories every year, I chose the following because they stood out or I just found them funny. Here goes nothing:
1998- Joseph Scariano is born. Obviously the most important event of the year.... In other news, former President Bill Clinton uttered his most infamous line, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Sure ya didn't, buddy.
1999- Six billion humans are declared to be living on Earth. Six billion people, are you kidding me? That's like, a lot of people. I mean... how do we even feed that many people? Jeez.
2001- Wikipedia is created. Where in the world would I be without Wikipedia. I can't even count how many times I've gotten lost for hours on Wikipedia. I start by looking up some soccer player and next thing you know, three hours later, I'm reading about the secret societies at Harvard. Go figure.
2004- Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his dorm room. Oh, the middle school memories. Who has the most friends? How many likes did your new profile picture get? Rates, dates and best feature?
2006- Evidence shows water on Mars. C'mon, we knew back in 2006 that we would have to send it to Mars some day.
2007- The iPhone is released. Looking back, this is one of the events that changed the world forever. Everyone has an iPhone. And if you're the one who makes the whole group chat send real text messages.. I'm sorry you're just a nuisance.
2008- The Large Hadron Collider is created. Apparently it was the most important scientific achievement of mankind. Eh, I don't buy it.
2011- Osama Bin Laden is killed by US forces. Alright let's be honest, no matter what political affiliation you have, you were happy to see this guy wiped out. U-S-A. Also, 7 billion people were declared living on Earth. Wait, I thought we were at 6 billion just twelve years ago...
2014- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears. We still don't know what happened to that thing. How does a massive aircraft just go entirely missing. Riddle me that.
2016- You know what this has to end with. Trump elected President of the free world. That story is still in process. Unless Stormy Daniels has anything to say about it.
