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If you are a member of the class of 2015, just entering college, you have already seen a lot of change. Consider:

If you were born in the mid ’90s, people still don’t agree on whether you are a ’90s kid or a new-century kid.

The CD-Rom (remember those?) was about 10 years old when you were born.

The World Wide Web was about five years old when you were born.

In 1994, a gallon of gasoline cost $1.11.

In 1994, there were 260,289,237 Americans.

In January, 1994, there were 30,000 internet domains.

In 1994, two students created Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web. They soon changed its name to Yahoo!

1994: Consumers began connecting digital cameras to home computers.

1994: The first spam (not the meat kind) was sent.

1995: eBay started.

1997: Netflix was created.

July, 1997: There were 1,301,000 web domains.

1998: Google set up workspace in a garage.

1999: The music file-sharing service Napster was created.

2001: The iPod went on sale.

2004: Facebook started.

2005: The internet-based music genome project Pandora started.

2006: We  began tweeting.

2007: The iPhone was released. We are now on generation four.

2007: The Android came out. Version four, the Ice Cream Sandwich, is coming soon.

2008: PCWorld named Hulu the best product of the year.

2010: Apple released the first iPad, selling 3 million in 80 days.

January 2011: Facebook had 750 million active users.

July 2011: Twitter had one million registered apps.

Aug. 31, 2011: On the day many colleges began classes, classes there were about 312,100,000 Americans.

And the changes have just begun …

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