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1. 1988

   1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade. 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United States (NSFNET) and Europe (Nordunet) as well as the first Internet-based chat protocol, Internet Relay Chat. The concept of the World Wide Web was first discussed at CERN in 1988.The Soviet Union began its major deconstructing towards a mixed economy at the beginning of 1988 and began its gradual dissolution. The Iron Curtain began to disintegrate in 1988 as Hungary began allowing freer travel to the Western world. The first extrasolar planet, Gamma Cephei Ab (confirmed in 2002) was detected this year and the World Health Organization began its mission to eradicate polio.

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1. 1988

   1988 is a hip hop album by the rapper/producer Blueprint, released on March 29, 2005, on Rhymesayers Entertainment.

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1. 1988noun

   The year a "legend " Original Gangster from Latino Mexican American gang LRZ13 ,Jason Mitchell was born.

   
   

   Submitted by monsterbubbag76.19.19 on April 28, 2022  

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   Rank popularity for the word '1988' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #909

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   The numerical value of 1988 in Chaldean Numerology is: 0

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   The numerical value of 1988 in Pythagorean Numerology is: 0

Examples of 1988 in a Sentence

1. Matthew Finn:

   I think it has the capacity to transform how we look at hold baggage. We've spent a lot of time thinking about the reconciliation of passengers and their bags; since 1988, since the Lockerbie Disaster, that's been a big focus of the airline industry. What the Fly-Bag does is look to those situations where there may be the device on board and how do we contain that. I think it's a really interesting development and I'd like to see it deployed more widely.

2. Mr Charles:

   The violence on my wrap sheet occurred back in 1988, when I was completely young, dumb, and wrong. ... It's 31 years ago, this is about obstacles to successful re-entry and reintegration back into society for ex-felons, that I and many released felons face on regular basis that need addressing and remedied.

3. Fox News:

   The race isn’t over in the states we’ve shifted to leaning Democratic, but it’s now clear that Clinton is playing from a position of strength in those states, most worrisome for Trump are the current polling trends in Pennsylvania. No Republican has won Pennsylvania since 1988. But it’s pretty hard to see a path to victory for Trump that doesn’t include a win in the Keystone State.

4. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid:

   The Senate has confirmed Supreme Court nominees both in election years and in the last year of a presidency — as recently as 1988, a presidential election year when a Democratic Senate confirmed President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in the final year of his administration.

5. Zamir Kabulov:

   We are ready to approach in a flexible way the issues of a possible easing of the regime of sanctions under Security Council Resolution 1988 on the Taliban, if this does not contradict Afghanistan's national interests, no one is talking today about achieving a victory by military means over the Taliban, while the implementation of the national reconciliation policy would in practice mean their return to power.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988
2. ^ Wikidata
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