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January 15, 2001
An encyclopedia anyone can edit goes live and is not expected to work.
These minutes are held permanently by the registry. They carry a date, a source, and nothing for sale.

January 15, 2001
An encyclopedia anyone can edit goes live and is not expected to work.

April 14, 2003
The international sequencing consortium declares the reference genome complete.

February 4, 2004
A directory for one campus goes online in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
March 21, 2006
The first post on a service that will rewrite how news travels.
January 9, 2007
Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco.
June 29, 2007
The first iPhone goes on sale and the pocket computer becomes ordinary.

January 3, 2009
The first Bitcoin block is mined with a newspaper headline written into it.

October 13, 2010
The last of the trapped miners at San Jose reaches the surface after sixty-nine days.

July 4, 2012
CERN announces the observation of a boson consistent with the Higgs.

August 6, 2012
The rover lands in Gale Crater after the seven minutes of terror.

December 21, 2015
A Falcon 9 first stage lands upright at Cape Canaveral.

February 11, 2016
LIGO announces the first direct detection of gravitational waves.

April 10, 2019
The Event Horizon Telescope releases an image of the shadow at the centre of M87.

March 11, 2020
The World Health Organization uses the word for COVID-19.

May 30, 2020
Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from Kennedy Space Center.

February 18, 2021
The rover reaches Jezero Crater carrying a helicopter under its belly.

December 25, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope launches on an Ariane 5 from Kourou.

July 12, 2022
The first full-colour images from Webb are released.

April 8, 2024
The Moon's shadow crosses Mexico, the United States and Canada.