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Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Scott Hassan begin work on what would become the Google Search Engine.

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Beginning of Time

1918

The Spanish flu pandemic begins as an unusually deadly influenza virus, infecting around 500 million people over the course of the next 2 years.

Present Day

Note: BCE means that the date is the number of years before the current era (CE/AD).
c. is short for 'circa' and indicates that the date is considered approximate.

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