What do you think was the most important historical event you have witnessed in your own lifetime?

Question

What do you think was the most important historical event you have witnessed in your own lifetime?
Why do you think it was important? Is it something obvious or more subtle?

Answer

My vote is when the Internet went public. There are numerous other events that have had huge impact on our world in my lifetime like or the fall of the Berlin Wall, for instance, but how many of those events changed the way we live like the advent of the Internet? brbrImagine what life would be like if never happened... now imagine life if the Internet would have never been invented and of course, all the different things that spawned from the Internet... which just about everything in our modern world now touches in some waybrbrWhich would change your day to day life more? assuming of course that you dont have a loved one that lost hisher life in or Iraq with that example... obviously a terrible and reprehensible tragedy, but much more personal than the example is hoping to warrant