50,000 B.C. |
The first evidence of counting is dated back to around 50,000 B.C.
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4,000 B.C. |
Metals start being created and used
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3,500 B.C. |
The first evidence of writing is dated back to around 3,500 B.C.
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3,300 B.C. |
The Bronze Age begins
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3,000 B.C. |
Hieroglyphic numerals are first used in Egypt
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1,350 B.C. |
Iron begins to be developed
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500 B.C. |
The Salamis Tablet, Roman Calculi, and hand-abacus, much like the abacus we know today begins to be used around 500 B.C.
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1400 - 1899
1440 |
Johannes Gutenberg completes his development of the Gutenberg press, the first printing press , |
1492 |
Leonardo da Vinci develops drawings of a 13-digit cog-wheeled adder
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1502 |
Peter Henlein, a craftsman from Nuremberg Germany, creates the first watch
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1600 |
William Gilbert coins the term electricity from the Greek word elecktra
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1617 |
John Napier introduces a system called "Napiers Bones," made from horn, bone or ivory which allows the capability of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by subtracting.
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1622 |
The circular slide rule is invented by William Oughtred
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1623 |
The first known workable mechanical calculating machine is invented by Germany's Wilhelm Schickard
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1632 |
William Oughtred of Cambridge combines two Gunter rules to make a device that resembles today's slide rule
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1642 |
Frances Blaise Pascal invents a machine, called the Pascaline, that can add, subtract, and carry between digits
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1674 |
Germany's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz creates a machine that can add, subtract, multiply and divide automatically.
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1724 |
Gabriel Fahrenheit proposes the Fahrenheit standard for temperatures
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1725 |
An early form of punch cards begins to be used in textile looms
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1752 |
On June 10, 1752 Benjamin Franklin flies a kite that collects a charge after being struck by lightning
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1774 |
The first telegraph is built
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1790 |
Samuel Hopkins receives the first United States patent on July 31, 1790
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1820 |
Thomas de Colmar creates the first reliable, useful and commercially successful calculating machine
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1822 |
In early 1822, Charles Babbage proposes and begins developing the Difference Engine (a mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions)
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1826 |
The earliest known surviving photograph is taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826. It is a view of a courtyard from his window
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1827 |
George Simon Ohm introduces Ohm's law in the book Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet
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1831 |
Joseph Henry of Princeton invents the first working electric telegraph which used electrical signals
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1832 |
Semen Korsakov uses punch cards for the first time to store and search for information
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1837 |
Charles Babbage proposes the Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer
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1838 |
Samuel Morse devises a code (later called Morse code) that uses different numbers to represent the letters and digits of the English alphabet
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1844 |
Samuel Morse dispatches the first telegraphic message over a line from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore on May 24, 1844
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1845 |
Izrael Staffel demonstrates the Staffel's calculator at the industrial exhibition in Warsaw
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1847 |
Siemens (now a a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering) is founded
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1851 |
Western Union (a financial services and communications company) was founded
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1857 |
The phonautograph (phonograph) is patented on March 25, 1857 by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. The device was capable of transcribing sound to a medium
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1861 |
The first known permanent colour photograph is taken of a Tartan Ribbon by the photographer Thomas Sutton. To achieve a colour image he took a photo of the ribbon three times, each time with a different colour, a method developed by James Clerk Maxwell
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1866 |
The first successful Trans-Atlantic cable is laid from Ireland to Newfoundland
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1868 |
Christopher Sholes invents the typewriter in the United States utilizing the QWERTY keyboard
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1875 |
Tanaka Seizo-sho is established in Japan and later merges with another company called shibaura Seisaku-sho to form Tokyo Shibarura Denki. Later this companies name is shortened to the company that we know today, Toshiba
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The company American Telephone and Telegraph Company that later became AT&T is founded
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1876 |
Scottish-Canadian-American Alexander Graham Bell is often credited as inventing the telephone makes the first call on March 10, 1876
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1877 |
The microphone is invented in the United States by Emile Berliner
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Thomas Edison invents and announces on November 21, 1877 the first phonograph capable of recording and replaying sounds
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1878 |
Eadweard Muybridge's "The Horse In Motion" becomes the first motion picture
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1879 |
Thomas Edison demonstrates the incandescent electric light bulb that lasts 13 1/2 hours on October 21, 1879
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James Jacob Ritty patents the worlds first cash register on November 4, 1879
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1880 |
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) is founded
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1883 |
American Thomas Edison discovers the Edison effect, where an electric current flows through a vacuum
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1885 |
American Telegraph and Telephone company (AT&T) is incorporated March 3,1885
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1888 |
National Geographic Society is established on January 27, 1888
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Nikola Tesla patents the rotating field motor May 1, 1888 and later sells the rights to George Westinghouse. This invention helps create and transmit AC power and today is still a method for generating and distributing AC power.
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William S. Burroughs patents a printing adding machine
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Eastman Kodak (an American multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company) is founded
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John Loud obtains a patent for the ballpoint pen October 30, 1888
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Friedrich Reintzer discovers liquid crystal which is the basis of most electronic displays
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1891 |
Phillips (Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. - Royal Philips Electronics) is founded
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1895 |
Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays November 8, 1895
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1896 |
Herman Hollerith starts the Tabulating Machine Company, the company later becomes the well-known computer company IBM (International Business Machines)
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1897 |
German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun invents the Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope
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1898 |
Alcatel (a global telecommunications corporation) is founded
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Nikola Tesla invents the remote control November 8, 1898
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1890 |
Herman Hollerith developed a method for machines to record and store information onto punch cards to be used for the US census. He later formed the company we know as IBM today
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1899 |
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1900 - 1959
1900 |
Nikola Tesla develops frequency hopping, now known as spread spectrum (an important concept in telecommunications)
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1901 |
The first radio message is sent across the Atlantic Ocean in Morse code
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1902 |
3M (formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) is founded
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1903 |
Wilbur and Orville Wright both take the first flight December 17, 1903.
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1904 |
John Ambrose Fleming creates the first commercial diode vacuum tube
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1906 |
The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) is founded in London England
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1907 |
Lee De Frost files patent #879,532 on Jan 29, 1907 for the vacuum tube triode. This is later used as an electronic switch in the first electronic computer.
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IBM files for its first U.S. patent, #998,631 October 11, 1907
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1908 |
The film "A Visit To The Seaside" becomes the first film commercially produced in natural colour in December of 1908
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1910 |
Henry Babbage, Charles Babbage's youngest son, completes a portion of the Analytical Engine which was able to perform basic calculations
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1911 |
Company now known as IBM on is founded June 16, 1911 in the state of New York as the Computing - Tabulating - Recording Company (C-T-R), a consolidation of the Computing Scale Company, and The International Time Recording Company.
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IBM is granted its first patent #998,631 July 25, 1911.
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1912 |
G. N. Lewis begins work on the lithium battery
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1918 |
Panasonic is founded March 18, 1918 in Japan
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1919 |
Olympus is established on October 12, 1919 by Takeshi Yamashita
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1920 |
First radio broadcasting begins in United States, Pittsburgh, PA
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1921 |
Czech playwright Karel Capek coins the term "robot" in the 1921 play RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots)
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The first Radio Shack store is opened by two brothers, Theodore and Milton Deutschmann
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1922 |
MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is established
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1923 |
Jack St. Clair Kilby, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the Integrated Circuit, handheld calculator, and thermal printer is born November 8, 1923
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1924 |
The Computing - Tabulating - Recording (C-T-R) company is renamed to IBM on February 14, 1924
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1927 |
Philo Taylor Farnsworth becomes the first person to successfully transmit a Television signal on September 7, 1927
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1928 |
September 25, 1928, The Galvin Manufacturing Corporation begins operations - the company will later be known as Motorola
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1930 |
Galvin Manufacturing Corporation Auto radios begin to be sold as an accessory for the automobile. Paul Galvin coins the name Motorola for the company's new products, linking the ideas of motion and radio |
Citizen (a large well known manufacturer of various computer components) is founded
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1933 |
Canon (one of the largest computer printer, floppy drives and video equipment manufactures) is established
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1934 |
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established
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The US Communication Act becomes operative
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1935 |
The Polygraph Machine (the lie detector) is used for the first time
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1936 |
Germany's Konrad Zuse creates the Z1, the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer and a machine that could be controlled through a punch tape
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Dvorak receives a patent for the Dvorak Keyboard May 12, 1936
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Henry F. Phillips receives a patent for the Phillips screw and screwdriver July 7, 1936
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Alan Turing develops the Turing Machine a device that printed symbols on paper tape in a manner that emulated a person following a series of logical instructions
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1937 |
Iowa State Colleges John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry begin work on creating the binary-based ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer) - considered by most to be the first electronic digital computer.
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Alec Reeves develops PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) - the basis of digital audio formats such as audio CD's, DVD's, and Blu-Ray discs
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1938 |
The company now known as Hewlett Packard creates its first product the HP 200A
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Chester Carlson produces the first electrophotographic image October 22, 1938, which later becomes the Xerox machine
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Orson Welles and Houseman broadcast H.G. Welles War of the Worlds on the airways October 30th as a Halloween spoof
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BBC creates the first science fiction television program
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1939 |
George Stibitz completes the Complex Number Calculator capable of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex numbers. This device provides a foundation for digital computers
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Iowa State Colleges John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry create a prototype of the binary-based ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer)
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Hewlett Packard is founded by William Hewlett and David Packard. The name is decided on the flip of a coin toss.
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1940 |
The first handheld two-way radio called the "Handy Talkie" is created by Motorola for the U.S. Army Signal Control
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1941 |
German Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3, a fully program-operational calculating machine. The computer is publically introduced in Berlin May 12, 1941
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Chester Carlson gets the patent for electric photography more commonly known today as photocopying October 6, 1941
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1943 |
The Colossus, the first eclectic programmable computer developed by Tommy Flowers is demonstrated in December 1943
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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first general-purpose electronic digital calculator begins to be constructed. This computer is considered to be the first electronic computer
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Dan Noble with Motorola designs a "Walkie Talkie" the first portable FM two-way radio. It was a backpack version that weighed 35 pounds
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1944 |
The Harvard Mark I computer is officially presented at Harvard University on August 7, 1944. The relay-based Harvard-IBM MARK I a large programmable-controlled calculating machine provides vital calculations for the U.S. Navy
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1945 |
The Von Neumann Architecture, the first description of a general purpose electronic digital computer with a stored programs is introduced in John von Neumann's report of the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer)
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The term bug as computer bug was first used by Grace Hopper when programming the MARK II
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1946 |
Freddie Williams applies for a patent on his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device in December. The device that later became known as the Williams tube is capable of storing between 512 and 1024 bits of data
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Konrad Zuse writes the first algorithmic programming language called 'Plankalkül'
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The ENIAC computer (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator) is completed
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The Selectron Tube, capable of storing 256 bits of information, begins development
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1947 |
On January 25, 1947, Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann. file patent #2,455,992 describing one of the first computer games played on a CRT
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Freddie Williams memory system known as the Williams tube, becomes operational. The device was capable of storing between 512 and 1024 bits of data , |
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ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is founded as a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 140 countries
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is established September 18, 1947
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John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley invent the first transistor at the Bell Laboratories on December 23, 1947
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1948 |
IBM builds the SSEC (Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator) containing 12,000 tubes
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Andrew Donald Booth creates magnetic drum memory, which is two inches long and two inches wide and capable of holding 10 bits per inch
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The 604 multiplying punch, based upon the vacuum tube technology, is produced by IBM
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1949 |
Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The concept of a computer program capable of reproducing itself was first mentioned by John von Neumann in his 1949 "Theory of self-reproducing automata" essay
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The Harvard-MARK III, the first of the MARK machines to use an internally stored program and indirect addressing, goes into operation again under the direction of Howard Aiken
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The first computer company, Electronic Controls Company is founded by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer.
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The EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) performs its first calculation on May 6, 1949.It is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer and was the computer to run a graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby"
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Popular Mechanics predicts: "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
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The small-scale electronic machine (SSEM) is fully operational at Manchester University.
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The Australian computer CSIRAC (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer) first ran. It is considered the fifth electronic stored program computer ever developed
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1950 |
The United States Government receives the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101 in 1950. This computer is considered to be the first computer that was capable of storing and running a program from memory.
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The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito
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Konrad Zuse completes and sells the Z4 on July 12, 1950, becoming the first commercial computer
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Alan Turing publishes his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence in October. This paper helps create the Turing Test which proposes that if a computer can pass for a human during a test then it could be said to be able to "think."
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The NICAD battery begins its commercial use
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1951 |
The first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) is completed by T. Raymond Thompson, John Simmons and their team at Lyons Co
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The first commercial computer, the "First Ferranti MARK I" becomes fully functional at Manchester University
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The first ISO is published with the title, "Standard reference temperature for industrial length measurement."
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UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer) was introduced. It is an electrical computer containing thousands of vacuum tubes that utilizes punch cards and switches for inputting data and punch cards for outputting and storing data
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The EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) begins performing basic tasks. It is one of the first electronic computers that utilizes the binary system
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Jay Forrester applies for a patent for magnetic core memory, the first random access memory (RAM) May 11, 1951
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The Nixie tube which is capable of displaying numbers 0
through 9 is first introduced |
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Grace Hopper develops A-0 (Arithmetic Language version 0), the first Arithmetic language
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1952 |
A complaint is filed against IBM in January 1952 alleging Monopolistic practices (The government's antitrust investigations and trial against IBM will drag on for thirty years, finally being dismissed in 1982. IBM will cautiously monitor its microcomputer business practices, fearful of a repeat of government scrutiny)
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Geoffrey Dummer a British radar engineer introduces the concept of the integrated circuit at a tech conference in the United States
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Fairly reliable working magnetic drum memories for use in computers begin to be sold by Andrew Donald Booth and his father
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RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is established to help standardize recording techniques and specificationhs
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Alexander Sandy Douglas created the first graphical computer game of Tic-Tac-Toe on an EDSAC computer known as "OXO"
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NSA (The National Security Agency) is formed on November 4, 1952
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1953 |
IBM introduces the 701 to the public on April 7, 1953 as it's first electric computer mass produced computer. It is used by the scientific community and a total of 19 are produced and sold.
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The UNIVAC predicts the presidential election during a televised news broadcast
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A magnetic memory smaller and faster than existing vacuum tube memories is built at MIT
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1954 |
IBM produces and markets the IBM 650. More than 1,800 of these computers are sold in an eight-year span, with 120 installations in the first year
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The first version of FORTRAN (Formula Translator) is published by IBM
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Texas Instruments announces the start of commercial production of silicon transistors
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IBM becomes the first company to translate Russian into English using a computer
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CERN (Conseil Europen pour la Recherche Nuclaire) is established on September 29, 1954
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IBM introduces its first calculating machine that uses solid-state transistors instead of vacuum tubes October 7, 1954
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The first commercially produced transistor radio, the Regency TR-1 is announced October 18, 1954
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1955 |
MIT introduces the Whirlwind Machine March 8, 1955, a revolutionary computer that was the first digital computer with magnetic core RAM and real-time graphics
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Tom Watson, IBM's president is featured on the front of Time Magazine March 28, 1955
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John McCarthy coins the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 1955 at Dartmouth University
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Dartmouth Colleges John McCarthy coins the term "artificial intelligence."
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IBM introduces the first IBM 702
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Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer. Transistors are faster, smaller and create less heat than traditional vacuum tubs, making these computers more reliable and efficient.
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The ENIAC is turned off for the last time. Its estimated to have done more arithmetic than the entire human race had done prior to 1945.
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1956 |
The TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) the first transistorized computer is demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The first ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) device was used to recognize single digits spoken by a user (it was not computer driven)
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On September 13, 1956 the IBM 305 RAMAC is the first computer to be shipped with a hard disk drive that contained 50 24-inch platters and was capable of storing 5 million characters and weighed a ton
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Wen Tsing Chow develops PROM (Programmable Read Only Memory)
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The programming language FORTRAN is introduced to the public October 15, 1956
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1957 |
IBM announces it will no longer be using vacuum tubes and releases its first computer that had 2000 transistors
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Fairchild Semiconductor is founded by Andy Grove, Eugene Kleiner, Gordon Moore, Jerry Sanders, Robert Noyce.
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Digital Equipment Corporation is founded by Kenneth Olsen. The company will later become a major network computer manufacturer.
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In response to Sputnik the United States creates the new agency ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency)
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Casio is established
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1958 |
Control Data Corporation introduces Seymour Cray's 1604 for $1.5 Million, half the cost of the IBM computer
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NEC builds its first computer the NEAC 1101
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William Higinbotham creates the first video game called "Tennis for Two"
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The programming language FORTRAN II is created (later FORTRAN III is created but never released to the public}
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President Eisenhowers Christmas address is the first voice transmission from a satellite
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The first integrated circuit is developed by Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments. It was demonstrated on September 12, 1958
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1959 |
Hitachi is founded.
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The Harvard-MARK I is turned off for the last time
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Robert Noyce creates an integrated circuit with component connections made of aluminum lines of silicon
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Leonard Kleinrock starts developing packetization, a method of distributing data over a network
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Motorola produces the two-way, fully transistorized mobile radio
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Panasonic is founded
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1960 - 1989
1960 |
2,000 computers are in use in the United states
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IBMs 1400 series machines, aimed at the business market begin to be distributed
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The COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) programming language is invented
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Psychologist Frank Rosenblatt creates the Mark I Perception, which has an "eye" that can learn to identify its ABCs
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Bob Bemer introduces the backslash (to assist with expressing file paths)
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Physicist Theodore Maiman creates the first laser May 16, 1960
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AT&T introduces the dataphone and the first known MODEM (MODulator/DEModulator)
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RS-232; a standard for computer data communications, is introduced by the Electronic Industries Association
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IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) is founded.
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Digital introduces the PDP-1 the first minicomputer.
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1961 |
Hewlett-Packard stock is accepted by the New York Stock Exchange for national and international trading
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Leonard Kleinrock publishes his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961
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The first IBM Selectric typewriter is released July 27, 1961
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General Motors puts the first industrial robot the 4,000 pound Unimate to work in a New Jersey factory
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Accredited Standards Committee is founded, this committee later becomes the INCITS (InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards)
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P.Z. Ingerman develops a thunk, a function with no parameters that returns an address for the parameter that it was written for
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ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association) is established
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The first transcontinental telegraph line begins operation on October 24, 1961
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The programming language FORTRAN IV is created
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1962 |
Steve Russell creates "SpaceWar!" and releases it in February 1962 -it is considered the first game intended for computers
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Paul Baran suggests transmission of data using fixed size message blocks
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J.C.R. Licklider becomes the first Director of IPTO (Information Processing Technology Office) and gives his vision of a galactic network.
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Philips invents the compact audio cassette tape
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Sharp is founded.
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1963
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IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer) is founded.
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ASCII (The American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is developed to standardize data exchange among computers
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Bell Telephone introduces the push button telephone November 18, 1963
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1964 |
Dartmouth Universitys John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Language) and run it for the first time May 1, 1964
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Baran publishes reports "On Distributed Communications"
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AT&T starts the practice of monitoring telephone calls in the hopes of identifying phreakers.
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The TRANSIT system becomes operational on U.S. Polaris submarines. This system later becomes known as GPS (Global Positioning System)
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On April 7, 1964 IBM introduces its System/360, the first of its computers to use interchangeable software and peripheral equipment.
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The first computerized encyclopedia is invented at the Systems Development Corporation.
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1965 |
Ted Nelson coins the terms Hypertext and Hypermedia to describe the linking of information
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Digital Equipment Company's first successful minicomputer, the PDP-8 is introduced. The computer sold for $18,000 and over 50,000 were sold.
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Donald Davies coins the word Packet to represent a segment of data sent from one computer or network device to another
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Engineers at TRW Corporation develop a Generalized Information Retrieval Language and System that later develops to the Pick Database Management System used today on Unix and Windows systems
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Texas Instruments develops the transistor-transistor logic (TTL)
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Lawrence G. Roberts with MIT performs the first long distant dial-up connection between a TX-2 computer n Massachusetts and a Q-32 in California
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Gordon Moore makes an observation in a April 19, 1965 paper that later becomes widely known as Moore's Law
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1966 |
MITs Joseph Weizenbaum writes a program called Eliza that allows the computer act as a psychotherapist
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Lawrence G. Roberts and Tom Marill publish a paper about connecting over dial-up
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Stephen Gray establishes the first personal computer club, the Amateur Computer Society
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Robert Taylor and Larry Roberts develop ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)
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The programming language BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) is created and become popular because of its portability
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1967 |
IBM creates the first floppy disk
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The first Consumer Electronic Show is held in New York from the July 24 to 28, 1967
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Donald Davies creates 1-node NPL packet net
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The LOGO programming language is developed and is later known as "turtle graphics" a simplified interface useful for teaching computers to children
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Ralph Baer creates "Chase", the first video game capable of being played on a television
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HES (Hypertext Editing System) is developed at the Brown University
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Nokia is formed
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GPS becomes available for commercial use
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ISACA (Information System Audit and Control Association) is established
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1968 |
Intel Corporation is founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
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Hewlett Packard began marketing the first mass-marketed PC, the HP 9100A
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The first Network Working Group (NWG) meeting is held
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On June 4, 1968 Dr. Robert Dennard at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre is granted U.S. patent 3,387,286 describing a one-transistor DRAM cell
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UCLA is selected to be the first node on the Internet as we know it today and serve as the Network Msmnt Center.
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SHRDLU, a program for understanding natural language, is created
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Seiko markets a miniature printer for use with calculators
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Sony invents Trinitron which becomes widely used in computer monitors
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Doug Englebart publicly demonstrates Hypertext on the NLS on December 9, 1968
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1969 |
Control Data Corporation led by Seymour Cray, release the CDC 7600, considered by most to be the first supercomputer
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AT&T Bell Laboratories develop Unix
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The first totally artificial heart is placed into Haskell Carp on April 4, 1969 for 64 hours until a donor heart became available
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AMD is founded on May 1, 1969
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Gary Starkweather, while working with Xerox invents the laser printer
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UCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969
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At 4:17 Eastern Time the Apollo 11 space craft lands on the moon and Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the moon
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Ralph Baer files for a US Patent on August 21, 1969 that describes playing games on a television and would later be a part of the Magnavox Odyssey, the world's first home video game console
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On August 29, the first network switch and the first Interface Message Processor is sent to UCLA.
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The first U.S. bank ATM went into service at 9:00am on September 2, 1969
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Charley Kline a UCLA student tries to send the first message over ARPANET at 10:30 p.m on October 29, 1969. The system transmitted part of the message and then crashed making this both the first message sent over the Internet and the first network crash
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CompuServe, the first commercial online service, is established
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1970 |
Western Digital is founded
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Steve Crocker and UCLA team releases NCP (Network Control Protocol) a communication protocol
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Intel announces the 1103, a new DRAM memory chip containing more than 1,000 bits of information. This chip is classified as random-access memory (RAM)
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The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is established to perform basic computing and electronic research
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The Forth programming language is created by Charles H. Moore.
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Henry Edward Roberts establishes Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970
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U.S. Department of Defence develops ada (originally known as DoD-1) a computer programming language capable of designing missile guidance systems
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The Sealed Lead Acid battery begins being used for commercial use
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Philips introduces the VCR ( Video Cassette Recorder)
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Centronics introduces the first dot matrix printer
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Douglas Englebart gets a patent for the first computer mouse on November 17, 1970
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IBM introduces the System/370, which included the use of Virtual Memory and utilized memory chips instead of magnetic core technology
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1971 |
The first 8" floppy diskette drive is introduced
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Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail - the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users
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The computer gets a voice, as the first computer is demonstrated with a synthesized voice
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Bob Bemer publishes world's first warning on Year 2000 problem (the potential issues of IBM computers using a two-digit year date stamp)
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The first laser printer is developed at Xerox PARC
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FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is first purposed as a way of sending and receiving files
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IBM introduces its first speech recognition program capable of recognizing about 5,000 words
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Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney create the first arcade game called "Computer Space"
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SMC, a manufacturer of computer networking equipment, is founded
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Steve Wozniak and Bill Fernandez develop a computer called the Cream Soda Computer
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Schadt and Helfrich develop twisted nematic, a method of allowing liquid crystals in an LCD to have a better contrast
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Niklaus Wirth invents the Pascal programming language
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Intel with the help of Ted Hoff introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 on November 15, 1971 which had 2,300 transistors, 60,000 OPS and cost $200.00
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First edition of Unix is released on November 03, 1971 which includes over 60 commands (eg. boot=reboot system; chdir=change working directory; cp=copy file; ls=list directory contents etc )
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1972 |
Intel introduces the 8008 processor on April 1, 1972
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The first video game console called the Magnavox Odyssey is demonstrated May 24, 1972 and later released by Magnavox and sold for $100.00 USD
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ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) is renamed to DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency)
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The programming language FORTRAN 66 is created
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Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs invents the C Programming Language
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The compact disc is invented in the United States
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Cray Research Inc. is founded to develop supercomputers
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Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video game on November 29, 1972
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First public demo of ARPANET takes place thereby beginning of what we consider the Internet today
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Whetstone, a software benchmark originally written in Algol, is first released in November 1972
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1973 |
The architecture used with the CP/M operating system becomes the standard for the next eight years (until MS-DOS is introduced)
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Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn design TCP (The Transmission Control Protocol) as one of the core protocols of the Internet
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ARPA deploys SATNET the first international connection
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Dr. Martin Cooper makes the first handheld cellular phone call to Dr. Joel S. Engel April 3, 1973
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Robert Metcalfe creates the Ethernet, a local-area network protocol, at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) on May 22, 1973
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The first VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) call is made
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IBM introduces its 3660 Supermarket System, which uses a laser to read grocery prices and UPC bar codes
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Interactive laser discs make their debut
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The ICCP ( Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals) is founded.
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U.S. Patent 3,906,166 is filed on October 17, 1973 for a radio telephone system, which helps paves the way for what we know today as a cell phone.
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Judge declares John Vincent Atanasoff as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer (Atanasoff–Berry Computer) on October 19, 1973
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1974 |
Intel's improved microprocessor chip is introduced April 1, 1974 and the 8080 becomes a standard in the computer industry
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John Draper aka Captain Crunch discovers a breakfast cereal children's whistle creates a 2600 hertz tone. Using this whistle and a blue box hes uccessfully gets into AT&T's phone network to make free calls anywhere in the world
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The IBM Multiple Virtual Storage, operating system is introduced
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A commercial version of ARPANET known as Telenet is introduced and considered by many to be the first Internet Service Provider (ISP)
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IBM develops SEQUEL, which today is known as SQL today
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IBM introduces SNA.(System Network Architecture) as a communications format
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Charles Simonyi coins the term WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
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Altair 8800 kits start going on sale December 19, 1974
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1975 |
Bill Gates and Paul Allen establish Microsoft April 4, 1975
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Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff announce Altair BASIC
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MITS ships one of the first PCs, the Altair 8800 with one kilobyte (KB) of memory. The computer is ordered as a mail-order kit for $397.00
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A flight simulator demo is first shown
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Xerox exits the computer market on July 21, 1975
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The IBM 5100 becomes the first portable computer is released on September 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz PALM processor, and 64KB of RAM
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EPSON enters the US market
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IMS Associates begin shipping its IMSAI 8080 computer kits on December 16, 1975
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1976 |
On February 3, 1976 David Bunnell publishes an article by Bill Gates complaining about software piracy in his Computer Notes Altair newsletter
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Intel introduces the 8085 processor on March 1976
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Steve Wozniak designs the first Apple, the Apple I computer in 1976, later Wozniak and Steve Jobs co-found Apple Computers on April Fools day
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The first 5.25-inch floppy disk is invented
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Microsoft introduces an improved version of BASIC
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The First Annual World Altair Computer convention and first convention of computer hobbyists is held in New Mexico on March 26, 1976.
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The first Public Key Cryptography known as the Deffie-Hellman is developed by Whitfield Deffie and Martin Hellman
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The Intel 8086 is introduced June 8, 1976
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak demonstrate the first Apple computer at the Home Brew Computer Club
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Professor at Bowling Green State University first uses the term 'Computer Ethics'
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The original Apple computer company logo of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree is replaced by the well known rainbow colored apple with a bite out of it
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Matrox is founded
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DES (Data Encryption Standard) is approved as a federal standard in November 1976
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Microsoft officially drops the hyphen in Micro-soft and trademarks the Microsoft name November 26, 1976
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In December of 1976 Bill Gates drops out of Harvard to devote all his time to Microsoft
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1977 |
Apple Computer becomes Incorporated January 4, 1977
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Ward Christansen develops a popular modem transfer modem called Xmodem
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Apple Computer Inc., Radio Shack, and Commodore all introduce mass-market computers
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Peter G. Neuman coins the term Peopleware
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Apple Computers Apple II, the first personal computer with colour graphics is demonstrated
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ARCNET the first commercially network is developed
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Zoom Telephonics is founded
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Commodore announces that the PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) will be a self-contained unit, with a CPU, RAM, ROM, keyboard, monitor and tape recorder all for $495.00
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Microsoft sells the license for BASIC to Radio Shack and Apple and introduces the program in Japan
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Apple releases the Apple II series of computers on June 10, 1977
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Tandy announces it will manufacture the TRS-80 Model 1, the first mass-produced computer on August 3, 1977. This computer is commonly referred to as the Trash 80
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BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) is introduced as an idea / operating system developed at the Computer System Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley
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1978 |
Dan Bricklin creates VisiCalc as the first spreadsheet type program
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The first BBS (Bulletin Board System) is put online February 16, 1978 allowing multiple users to communicate with each other, share software and information and play games
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TCP splits into TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) driven by Danny Cohen, David Reed, and John Shoch to support real-time traffic. This allows the creation of UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
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Epson introduces the TX-80, which becomes the first successful dot matrix printer for personal computers
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OSI (Open System Interconnection) is developed by International Organization for Standardization.
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Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle create the first MUD (Multi-User Dungeon), an online, text-based, virtual environment
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The first spam e-mail was sent by Gary Thuerk in May 1, 1978 an employee at Digital who was advertising the new DECSYSTEM-2020, 2020T, 2060, AND 2060T on ARPAnet
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Microsoft introduces a new version of COBOL
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The 5.25-inch floppy disk becomes an industry standard
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In June of 1978 Apple introduces Apple DOS 3.1, the first operating system for the Apple computers
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Electronic Technicians Association is founded
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John Shoch and Jon Hupp at Xerox PARC develop the first worm
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1979 |
Robert Williams of Michigan became the first human to be killed by a robot at the Ford Motors company on January 25, 1979. Resulting in a $10 million dollar lawsuit.
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Epson releases the MX-80 which soon becomes an industry standard for dot matrix printers
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The Intel 8088 is released on June 1, 1979. The 8088 was available in speeds from 4.77 MHz and 8MHz and used a 16-bit architecture capable of accessing up to 1MB of RAM
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Texas Instruments enters the computer market with the TI 99/4 personal computer that sold for $1,500.
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Hayes markets its first modem that becomes the industry standard for modems
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Atari introduces a coin-operated version of Asteroids
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More than half a million computers are in use in the United States
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Oracle introduces the first commercial version of SQL
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The Motorola 6800, an 8-bit processor is released and is later chosen as the processor for the Apple Macintosh
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Virtual Memory Systems is introduced as a a multi-user, multitasking operating system
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CompuServe becomes the first commercial online service offering dial-up connection to anyone September 24, 1979
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The following companies were founded during 1979: Oracle, Saitek, Seagate, Bit 3, Phoenix, Novell, 3COM, SCO (Santa Cruz Operation, Inc), Sierra
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1980 |
On January 3, Hewlett Packard introduces its HP-85, a microcomputer with 16kB of RAM and a 5-inch CRT display
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IBM introduces RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer)
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IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. The pair buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template. IBM allows the two to keep the marketing rights to the operating system, called DOS (Disk operating system)
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IBM hires Microsoft to develop versions of BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal for the PC being developed by IBM
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Microsoft licenses Unix and starts to develop a PC version, XENIX
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The programming language FORTRAN 77 is created
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The first Tandy Colour computer is introduced
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The following are founded during 1980: AST, FIC, Iomega, Quantum
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Atari becomes the first company to register a Copyright for two computer games "Asteroids" and "Lunar Lander" on June 17, 1980
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ARPANET experiences first major network crash causing it to go down for four hours October 27, 1980
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1981 |
Jeff Dailey, a 19-year old becomes the first person to die from computer gaming after dying from a heart attack after posting a score of 16,660 on Berzerk
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Satya Pal Asija receives the first U.S. patent for a computer software program May 26, 1981
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Microsoft buys the rights for QDOS (Quick and Dirty Disk Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000 on July 27, 1981
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MS-DOS 1.0 is released on August, 1981
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ANSI (American National Standards Institute) is was founded.
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IBM joins the computer race by announcing the IBM Personal Computer on August 12, 1981, which runs the new MS-DOS operating system and has a starting price of $1,565
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Kermit, a file-transfer and terminal protocol, is developed at the Columbia University in New York
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Xerox introduces the Graphical Star workstation, a computer which greatly influences the development of Apple's future computer models, Lisa and Macintosh, as well as Microsoft's Windows
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VHDL ((Very High Speed Integrated Circuit) is proposed and begins development
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VMEbus (VERSAmodule Eurocard bus) is developed
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Hayes Introduces the Smartmodem 300 with its standard setting AT command set and an operating speed of 300 bits per second
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Adam Osborne introduces the Osborne I, the first successful portable computer, which weighs 25 pounds
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Hewlett-Packard introduces the Superchip the first 32-bit chip
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Commodore ships the VIC-20, which later becomes the worlds most popular computer costing only $299.95
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The following are founded in 1981: Adaptec, Diskeeper, BITNET, Gemlight, CTX, Kensington, Logitech
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Hayes releases the Smartmodem 1200 with transfer rates of 1,200 bits per second
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1982 |
Peter Norton creates Norton Utilities . |
Sony releases its first Trinitron monitor
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The following are founded in 1982: SGI Maxtor, Hercules, Labtec, Number Nine, Symantec, Lotus Development Corporation, Diamond Multimedia, Adobe, BTC, Sun, Compaq Computer Corp
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The Intel 80286 is introduced February 1, 1982
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Disney releases the movie Tron on July 9, 1982, the first movie to use computer generated special effects
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A Philips factory in Germany creates the world's first compact disc on August 17, 1982
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Microsoft releases FORTRAN for the PC COBOL for MS-DOS, and Multiplan for the Apple II and CP/M machines
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WordPerfect Corporation introduces WordPerfect 1.0 a word processing program that will become one of the computer markets most popular word processing program
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The first luggable computer, weighing around 15 to 30 pounds, is introduced
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The Commodore 64 an 8-bit computer with 64 kilobytes of memory and Commodore BASIC begins to be sold.
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The HX-20 becomes the first notebook-sized portable computer is introduced by Epson
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MS-DOS version 1.25 is released
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Apple Computer is the first personal computer manufacturer to hit the $1 billion mark for annual sales
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Professor Scott Fahlman creates a post on bulletin board raising the idea of using a series of characters to represent a smiley face and frown face that later became known as emoticons
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Sony begins selling the first Audio CD players October 1, 1982
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The XT bus that had four DMA channels, was 8-bit, and had a bus speed of 4.77 MHz is introduced
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Rich Skrenta a 15-year old high school student creates the first known computer virus known as The Elk Cloner
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AutoCAD is introduced in December 1982
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1983 |
Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet program is introduced January 26, 1983
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Apple releases the Lisa computer, the first commercial computer with a GUI (Graphical user Interface)
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The IBM XT is first introduced on March 8, 1983
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The first Apple Worldwide Developer Conference is held
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Compaq introduces the first 100% IBM compatible computer the "Compaq Portable" in March of 1983
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PC World magazine first appears on news stands in March 1983
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BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) 4.2 is released and introduces pseudo terminals
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Iomega introduces the Bernoulli drive
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TIME magazine nominates the personal computer as the "machine of the year" December 26,1982, the first non-human ever nominated
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The 414s, a group of hackers are caught by the FBI
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Novell introduces Netware
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The Apple IIe is introduced containing 64 kilobytes of RAM one megahertz 6502 processor, running Applesoft BASIC and selling for $1,400
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ARPANET standardizes TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
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THX is established as a standard for sound in home theatre and computer games
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More than 10 million computers are in use in the United States.
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MS-DOS 2.0 is released in March, 1983
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True BASIC is created and is a compiled, structured language. It doesn't require line numbers, as the original BASIC did, and includes the advanced control structures necessary for structured programming
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The QIC (Quarter-Inch Cartridge) becomes the first standard in the computer history for tape drives
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The GNU operating system is first announced by Richard Stallman September 27, 1983
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IBM announces the PCjr (PC junior) computer November 1, 1983
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Microsoft Windows is announced in November 10, 1983
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The largest Bulletin Board System,Exec-PC goes online in November 28, 1983
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1984 |
Docutel/Olivetti introduce the Olivetti PC, compatible with the IBM PC on January 3, 1984
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The now famous Apple "1984" commercial is aired during Super Bowl XVIII January 22, 1984
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On January 24, 1984 the Apple Macintosh is introduced
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Hitachi announces it has developed the first memory chip capable of holding 1MB on January 5th
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IBM's AT (Advanced Technology) computer is introduced with a 1.2MB floppy disk drive, 512k of RAM and a 20Megabyte disk drive
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The first global Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) is developed and run across BITNET
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Microsoft creates a new hardware and peripheral division March 29, 1984
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The game Tetris is first released in the USSR June 6, 1984
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Amiga is purchased by Commodore Business Machines on August 15th
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ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) is first defined as a standard of network encoding and decoding
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The 3.5-inch floppy diskette is introduced and later becomes an industry standard
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Dell Computer is founded on May 3, 1984 in Austin Texas
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Fox Software FoxBASE is introduced as the first database program
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Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel introduce DNS Domain Name System or Domain Name Service)
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Apple's AppleTalk networking protocol is introduced
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IBM develops EGA (Enhanced Graphics Adapter) with higher resolution, more colours, and a quicker response then previous video cards.
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Microsoft introduces MS-DOS 3.0 for the IBM PC AT and MS-DOS 3.1 for networks
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The Tandy 1000 personal computer is introduced and becomes the best-selling IBM-compatible computer of the year
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University of Southern California professor Fred Cohen creates alarm when he warns the public about computer viruses in his Computer Virus - Theory and Experiments paper.
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The term cyberspace is first used and coined by William Gibson in his book Neuromancer.
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Kings Quest 1: Quest for the Crown is released to the public by Sierra
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The Yellow book of CD-ROM standards is written
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ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) is expanded to 16-bit capability
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1985 |
The WELL, a website that many credit as being the birthplace of the online community movement is founded in February 1985 by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant
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On January 4th at Commodore introduces the Commodore 128 PC with 8502 processor 128 kB of RAM and ROM cartridge port
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On January 4th Atari introduces the Atari 130XE, 130ST, 260ST, 520ST, 65XE, 65XEM, and 65XEP computers
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The first Internet domain name symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company on March 15
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The GNU manifesto is published by Dr. Dobb's Journal
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The Amiga A1000 is introduced
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Dell releases its first computer, the "Turbo PC"
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Microtek introduces the world's first 300-dpi black-and-white sheet fed scanner
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Microsoft and IBM begin collaboration on the next-generation operating system (OS/2)
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CAT1 (Category 1) wiring is introduced
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Intel introduces the 80386 processor in October
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Paul Brainard of Aldus Corporation introduces Pagemaker for the Macintosh, a program that lets users mix type and graphics on the same page. The combination of this software and the new Apple LaserWriter laser printer helps create the desktop publishing field
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The Mach Project begins at the Carnegie Mellon University
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IBM develops the NetBEUI (NETBios Enhanced User Interface)
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Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced in November and is initially sold for $100.00
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Steve Jobs quits Apple on September 16
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IBM introduces the Baby AT motherboard form factor
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The following are founded in 1985: Corel, Gravis, Boca, ATI, Gateway 2000, Quantum Computer Services (which later becomes AOL)
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The first C++ reference guide is published by Bjarne Stoustrup October 14
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The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in North America October 18
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Microsoft releases the first version of Microsoft Excel on the Apple Macintosh November 30
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1986 |
The Hacker Manifesto is published in Phrack (Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10) on January 8
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is formed January 16, 1986
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Beny Alagem buys the Packard Bell name from Teledyne and starts the Packard Bell computer company
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The term vaporware describing software that has been officially announced by a company, but has not officially been released is first used by Philip Elmer-DeWitt in a TIME magazine article
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The following are founded in 1986: Gigabyte Pixar (co-founded by Steve Jobs), Aztech and Avid
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Apple introduces the Mac Plus containing one megabyte of RAM, a new keyboard that contains cursors and numeric keypad and which is sold for $2,600
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The AT or 101 key keyboard is introduced by IBM
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Compaq introduces the first 386-based PC compatible computer
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The NCSA (National Centre for Supercomputing Applications) opens
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Microsoft is listed on the New York Stock Exchange selling shares to the public at $21 each, making Bill Gates one of the worlds youngest billionaires
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The domain ibm.com comes online March 19, 1986
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MS-DOS 3.2 was released in April, 1986
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IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is developed by Stanford University
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Eric Thomas develops the first Listserv which delivers e-mails to everyone who has subscribed to the list
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NSFNET (National Science Foundation Network) is created
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BITNET II (Because It's There Network) is created
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IBM PC Division (PCD) announces it's first laptop computer, the PC Convertible, weighing 12 pounds, which is 18 pounds lighter than the earlier portable computer
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CD-i (Compact Disc-Interactive) format is specified
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Tandy announces the Color Computer 3 July 30, 1986
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More than 30 million computers are in use in the United States
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1987 |
Steve Wozniak ends his employment with Apple on February 6, 1987
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The domain apple.com comes online February 19, 1987
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CompuServe introduces the GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) standard and images
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Microsoft purchases Forethought Incorporated the company that developed PowerPoint
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Microsoft introduces Microsoft Works
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.Dolby AC-1, the first digital coding technology is introduced
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Microsoft and IBM release OS/2 1.0
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The Mac SE is introduced at $2,900
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Chipsets begin to be found on computer motherboards
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IBM introduces the PS/2 personal computer that has improved graphics, a 3.5-inch diskette drive, and proprietary bus to help prevent clone makers competition, and a bidirectional 8-bit port
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IBM sends clone manufacturers letters demanding retroactive licensing fees
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IBM develops 8514/A a graphics display standard that supports resolutions of 1024x768 and is interlaced.
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.MS-DOS 3.3 is released in April, 1987
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IBM introduces MCA (Micro Channel Architecture)
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Microsoft Shares hits $100 per share
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The SPARC (Scalar Processor ARChitecture) processor is first introduced by Sun.
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The first e-mail from China is sent to its connection in Germany September 20, 1987
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IBM introduces VGA (Video Graphics Array)
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Larry Wall introduces Perl 1.0
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Microsoft introduces Windows 2.0 in December 9, 1987
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The following are established in 1987: RealTek, Elitegroup Computer Systems, Oak Technology, VIA Technologies, Apogee
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The domain cisco.com comes online May 14, 1987
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1988 |
Apple files a copyright infringement against Microsoft for Windows 2.03 and Hewlett Packard for New Wave in comparison with their Macintosh operating system
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About 45 million PCs are in use in the United States.
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SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is introduced.
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Robert Morris releases the Morris worm November 22, 1988, becoming one of the first major worms to infect roughly 6,000 computers over the Internet and helps establish the CERT Coordination Centre
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Creative Labs introduces the SoundBlaster, a sound card for the PC that contains an 11-voice FM synthesizer with text-to-speech, digitized voice input / output, a MIDI port, a joystick port and bundled software
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Jarkko Oikarinen develops IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
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EISA (Extended Industry Standard Architecture) is announced in September as an alternative to MCA
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Morphing is first introduced in the movie Willow
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Intel 80386SX is introduced
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Motorola releases the 88000 processor
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MS-DOS 4.0 is released July, 1988 and MS-DOS 4.01 is released November, 1988
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NTP (Network Time Protocol) is introduced to help synchronize computer times
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The following are established in 1988: Trend Micro, Xircom, Promise, OSF and CREN ( from a merger between Bitnet and CSNET)
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1989 |
GriD Systems Corporation introduces the first pen-based computer
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The Gif89a (animated gif) standard is introduced
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SQL Server is introduced
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Intel releases the 486DX processor, with more than 1 million transistors and multitasking capabilities
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Orange book, which defines the standard for writable discs, is released by Philips and Sony
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Poqet announces the Poqet PC the first pocket-sized MS-DOS compatible computer
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The networking routing protocol OSPF is introduced
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The following are founded in 1989: Citrix, S3 Inc, Asus ,ActionFront, PCMCIA Trade Association and ABIT
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1990 - 1999
1990 |
Tim Berners-Lee, working with Robert Cailliau at CERN proposes a 'hypertext' system, starting the Internet as we know it today
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Microsoft releases Windows 3.0 will sell more than 3 million copies in one year
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Microsoft exceeds $1 billion in sales and becomes the first company to do so
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Microsoft releases its first product for the Russian market Russian DOS 4.01
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EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), a group of volunteer people who work to help protect everyone's digital rights is founded on February 16, 1990
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The first search engine Archie, written by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Mike Parker at McGill University in Montreal Canada is released on September 10, 1990
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The Hubble telescope goes into space
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Norton sells his software business to Symantec
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Creative Labs introduces the SoundBlaster Pro with enhanced features
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The Multimedia Personal Computer (MPC) standards are developed by Tandy and Microsoft
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Microsoft and IBM stop working together to develop operating systems
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IBM introduces XGA (eXtended Graphics Array)
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ARPANET replaced by NSFNET (National Science Foundation Network)
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GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) standard is defined
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The NiMH battery begins being used for commercial use
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Intel releases the 80386SL processor which uses low power and is found in many portable computers
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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is launched October 17, 1990
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Gopher a menu-driven search-and-retrieval tool that helps Internet users locate information online is developed at the University of Minnesota
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Tim Berners-Lee successfully sets up the first web server at info.cern.ch on December 25, 1990
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The World, the first commercial Internet dial-up access provider comes online
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Quarterdeck releases its memory management program QEMM386 version 5.1 which quickly becomes the fastest-selling software program in the Untied States
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1991 |
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 0.9 is introduced 1991
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National Science Foundation opens the Internet to commercial development
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AMD introduces the AM386 microprocessor family in March
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Intel introduces the Intel 486SX chip for $258.00 in April in efforts to bring a lower-cost processors to the PC market
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Cell phone Lithium batteries begin being recalled in Japan after a phone explodes and burns a man's face
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.Python, an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, is introduced
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Symantec releases Norton anti-virus software
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The programming language FORTRAN 90 is created
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Microsoft changes the name of OS/2 to Windows NT following its decision not to develop operating systems cooperatively with IBM
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BSDi and id Software are both founded in 1991
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Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), a public key used for encryption, is released as Freeware by Philip Zimmerman
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The computer Monkey Virus is first discovered in Edmonton, Canada.
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The domain microsoft.com comes online May 2, 1991
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Apple introduces System 7 operating system May 13, 1991
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The DLT tape drive is released as a very reliable, high-speed and high-capacity tape drive solution
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The Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) is developed by Intel, Xircom and Zenith Data Systems
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TrueType, a scalable font is introduced and developed by Microsoft and Apple and is used on all Apple computers and PC computers running Windows
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MS-DOS 5.0 is released in June, 1991
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The London Science Museum completes the Difference Engine No 2 in June of 1991 for the bicentennial year of Charles Babbage's birth
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The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the European Partial Physics Laboratory (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland develops the Web as a research tool
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Linux is introduced by Linus Torvald in August 25, 1991
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Apple QuickTime is introduced in December 2, 1991
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1992 |
The Internet Society is formed
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John Scully first uses the term PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) at Consumer Electronic Show while describing the Apple Newton on January 7, 1992
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Microsoft introduces Windows 3.1 which sells more than 1 million copies within the first two months of its release
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Intel releases the 486DX2 chip March 2 with a clock doubling ability that generates higher operating speeds.
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Microsoft acquires Fox Software in June, maker of FoxPro, a database application
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VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) local bus is introduced as the first to have direct access to the system memory at the speed of the processor
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Radio Shack releases the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX personal computers which are the first personal computers based upon the MPC specification
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The Re-usable Alkaline battery is first used for commercial purposes
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EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) version 1.7 is released
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IBM introduces the ThinkPad, the industry's first notebook with a 10.4 inch colour TFT display and TrackPoint
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Thrustmaster and GeCAD are both founded in 1992
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TWAIN, a standard interface for scanning equipment is developed by the TWAIN consortium, as it was called, consisting of representatives from Aldus, Caere, Eastman, Kodak, Hewlett Packard and Logitech
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Microsoft and Hewlett Packard develops ECP (Enhanced Capabilities Port)
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MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) standard is defined
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Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is developed by SQL Access Group
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Jean-Loup Gaily and Mark Alder release GNU zip (Gzip), a compression software program on October 31, 1992
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1993 |
Fifty World Wide Web servers are known to exist as of January, 1993
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Winsock, an interface that allows communication between TCP/IP and Window, sis released January 1993
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President Bill Clinton puts the United States White House online with a World Wide Web page and e-mail address for the President, Vice President and the first lady
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Microsoft releases Windows NT, Microsoft Office 4.0 and MS-DOS 6.0
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Intel develops PPGA (Plastic Pin Grid Array) as a solution to heat-related issues
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The NCSA releases the Mosaic browser, the first widely used graphical World Wide Web browser, on April 22, 1993
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Tandy sells its computer business to AST Research
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Intel releases the Pentium Processor on March 22 1993. It is a 60 MHz processor, incorporates 3.2 million transistors and sells for $878.00
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Microsoft and IBM introduce a Plug-and-Play Industry Standard Architecture (PnP ISA)
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The first live streaming was done by the band Severe Tire Damage on June 24, 1993. The event was seen live in Australia and other locations over the Internet
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Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 is released on July 27, 1993
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Wine begins to be developed as a software program to enable users to run many Microsoft Windows applications under Linux
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John Scully is named president of Apple Computers
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The following are founded in 1993: Neomagic, FRISK software, IrDA, Funcom, PowerQuest and Efficient Networks
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InterNIC (Internet Network Information Centre) is officially established in 1993 by the US National Science Foundation. InterNIC and is responsible for domain name and IP address allocation
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Tim Negris, a VP at Oracle Corporation coins the term Thin client to represent a terminal that relies on another computer system (usually a server) to supply the operating system and software applications needed by the user
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ADSI (Analog Display Service Interface) is developed at Bellcore as a protocol that allows for voice and data to be heard and displayed on devices
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The Environmental Protection Agency, along with 50 computer companies, establish Energy Star guidelines that aim to decrease the amount of power a PC uses it is idle
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Developed by IBM, Motorola and Apple the PowerPC processor for the Apple Power Mac is introduced and later included in the Power Mac
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VideoCD (VCD) is introduced
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The PC game DOOM by Id Software is released December 10, 1993 representing a turning point for first person shooters and for computer games in general
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Broderbund releases the computer game Myst on September 24, 1993 which becomes one of the most popular, well known, and widely sold IBM and Apple Macintosh compatible titles
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Microsoft Windows 3.11, an update to Windows 3.1, is released on December 31, 1993
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1994 |
Commodore Computers files Bankruptcy
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Vice President Al Gore makes a speech where he coins the term "Information Superhighway"
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IBM releases OS/2 Warp
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CDDI (Copper Distributed Data Interface) is adopted as a data transmission standard that uses either shielded twisted-pair (STP) or unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) copper wire
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Intel releases the second generation of Intel Pentium processors on March 7, 1994
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Netscape (Mosaic Communications corporation) is found by Marc Andreesen and James H. Clark April 4, 1994
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Microsoft introduces SMS, now known as SCCM ( System Centre Configuration Manager)
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Iomega releases its Zip disk drive and diskettes
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The following are founded in 1994: Red Hat Linux, 3DFX, Sunbelt Software, Geek Squad
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The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is founded by Tim Bernes-Lee to help with the development of common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide Web
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Microsoft releases its beta for Windows 95, code named Chicago
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Rasmus Lerdorf creates PHP (Hypertext Pre-processor)
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IBM PCD introduces the IBM ThinkPad 775CD, the first notebook with an integrated CD-ROM
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Hotwired sells the first banner ad to AT&T on October 27, 1994 and begins running the first Internet banner ad campaign
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A mathematical flaw in the Intel Pentium involving the Pentium not correctly performing floating-point calculations is discovered
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YAHOO is created in April, 1994.
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The e-mail hoax "Good Times virus" is first sent out in e-mail
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Microsoft releases Windows 3.11 in February, MS-DOS 6.22 in April and Windows NT 3.5 in September
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Intel introduces the Intel 486DX4 processor
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Norway's telecom company, Telenor, starts a research project that later becomes Opera Software
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Mosaic Netscape 0.9, the first Netscape browser is officially released October 13, 1994, introducing the Internet to Cookies
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Perl 5.000 is released on October 17, 1994
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Amazon.com domain is registered on November 1, 1994
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WXYC (89.3 FM Chapel Hill, NC USA) becomes the first traditional radio station to announce broadcasting on the Internet November 7, 1994
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Mosaic branches off the company Netscape on November 14, 1994 and Netscape version 1 is soon released
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On December 24, 1994 Unisys and CompuServe announced that they expected licensing fees for software that creates and displays GIF images. This leads to the development of the PNG (Portable Network Graphic) format
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1995 |
Apple allows other computer companies to clone its computer by announcing its licensed the Macintosh operating system rights to Radius on January 4, 1995
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IBM introduces the butterfly keyboard which expands when the laptop lid is opened and collapses when the lid is closed
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The dot-com boom starts
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Code named Utopia, Microsoft Bob is introduced as a user friendly interface on January 5, 1995 by Bill Gates
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The first Wiki is created
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Yahoo.com domain is registered on January 18, 1995.
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Netscape introduces SSL (Secure Socket Layer) in February of 1995 to aid security on the Internet
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Apple develops FireWire
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The first VoIP software (Vocaltec) is released allowing end users to make voice calls over the Internet
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Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language) 5.001 is released March 13, 1995
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The Opera browser version 1 is released April 1, 1995
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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 1.0 on August 16, 1995
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The domain ebay.com comes online August 4, 1995
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Netscape goes public at $28.00 a share and by the closing ends at $58.00 a share
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The first E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) is held in Las Vegas Nevada
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Intel introduces the SMBus (System Management Bus)
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Microsoft and General Electrics NBC television network form a partnership
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LiveScript is renamed to JavaScript
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Java is introduced
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The Iomega Jaz drive is introduced
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Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 is released May 30, 1995
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Microsoft releases Windows 95 and within four days the software sells more than 1 million copies
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PHP, a scripting language designed for creating dynamic web pages and web pages that effectively work with databases, is publicly released June 8, 1995
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Amazon.com is officially opened July of 1995
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DSVD (Digital Simultaneous Voice Data) is released
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WebTV Networks is founded allowing access to the Internet from a television
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EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
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Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia
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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 2.0 on November 22, 1995 and officially starts the browser war with Netscape
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CD-E is introduced to the general public thereby enabling users to create, erase and reuse CDs
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Ruby, an open source object-oriented programming language, is released
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Microsoft releases DirectX 1.0 (4.02.0095) on September 30, 1995
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EDO (Extended Data Out) memory is introduced
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Intel releases the new ATX motherboard
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Lotus becomes a part of IBM
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The first computer network wiretap is authorized October 23, 1995 and leads later to the arrest of Julio Cesar Ardita
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The USB (Universal Serial Bus) standard is released
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Intel introduces the Intel Pentium Pro in November
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Toy Story is released November 22, 1995 becoming the first movie that is completely computer generated
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The HTML 2.0 standard is first published on November 24, 1995
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin begin developing a search engine called BackRub with PageRank, technology that becomes part of Google
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IBM unveils Deep Blue on December 5, 1995, a parallel computing system that will later play and beat the World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov on February 2, 1996
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The Internet search engine AltaVista is launched on December 15, 1995
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1996 |
The domain imdb.com comes online January 5, 1996
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Intel releases the 200 MHz P6
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The Telecom Act deregulates data networks
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For the first time more e-mail is sent than postal mail in USA
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The first Java Development Kit (JDK 1.0) codenamed oak is released January 23, 1996
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The game Duke Nukem 3D is released January 29, 1996
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The domain myspace.com comes online February 22, 1996
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The movie Twister becomes the first featured film put on DVD March 25, 1996
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Microsoft VBScript is introduced
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Angelfire and Netgear are both founded in 1996
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Microsoft releases DirectX 3.0 (4.04.00.0068) on June 5, 1996
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A domestic sheep by the name of Dolly is born and becomes the first mammal to be cloned
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Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 is released July 29, 1996.
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Li-polymer batteries first begin to be used
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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0 on August 13, 1996
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Google is first developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page
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KDE (K Desktop Environment) begins to be developed by Matthias Ettrich
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Macromedia purchases FutureWave and later releases Macromedia Flash 1.0
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The first CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) specification, CSS 1, is published in December 1996
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The Communication Decency Act amendment to the U.S. 1996 Telecommunications Act comes into effect on February 8, 1996 intending to protect children from obscenity on the Internet, but many argue that its language is too vague and it violates the rights of free speech
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Microsoft Windows CE 1.0 is released as a portable operating system solution
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Sony enters the PC market with the release of VAIO
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Creative Labs introduces the 3D Blaster card its first graphics card to be released to the computer market
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U.S. Robotics announced announces its first Palm Pilot
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Microsoft introduces the IntelliMouse also known as a wheel mouse.
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Acer America Corporation introduces its designer home PCs
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Sun Microsystems releases its line of network computers.
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Apple announces it will purchase NeXT for $429 million on December 20, 1996 and that it will acquire Steve Jobs, Apples cofounder, as a consultant.
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The first Tomb Raider game is released November 14, 1996
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United States patent 5,579,430 is granted November 26, 1996 for the digital encoding process of MP3 files
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K56Flex is announced in November by Lucent and Rockwell providing an interoperable high speed modem protocol that revolutionizes Internet communications
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The ATSC approves HDTV (High-definition Television) on December 24, 1996
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1997 |
On January 7th Microsoft releases the final version of Internet Explorer 3.0 for the Apple Macintosh
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The PNG (Portable Network Graphic) standard is introduced on January 10, 1997
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IEEE releases 802.11 (WiFi) standard in June 1997
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Mosaic development and support officially discontinued on January 7, 1997
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The domain facebook.com comes online March 28, 1997
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Several computer manufactures introduce computers that cost less than $1,000.00
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Intel introduces the MMX (MultiMedia eXtension) chip
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Unwired Planet develops HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language)
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Intel introduces the Slot 1 processor and slot
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Connectix introduces Virtual PC for the Macintosh
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AOL faces several lawsuits from subscribers who are upset about the difficulties encountered when attempting to connect to its services
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The dancing baby becomes one of the Internets first fads
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Altavista introduces its free online translator Babel Fish
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Microsoft announces plans to buy WebTV Networks in April for $425 million a deal which is later approved and completed in August.
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Digital Video Discs / Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) begin to go on sale
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The Intel Pentium II is introduced on May 7, 1997
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IBM's Deep Blue computer defeats world champion chess player Garry Kasparov May 11, 1997 in their second six-game showdown, winning the tie-breaking game in only 62 minutes
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Carsten Haitzler releases Enlightenment, a desktop windows manager
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The following are established in 1997: E ink, Kaspersky, The TRUSTe organization, Nullsoft, Webroot Software, Cyrix, Internet2 consortium
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CD-RW drives and media are introduced
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Bill Gates is becomes the worlds richest businessman
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The NASA Pathfinder Web site, which is running real-time images sent from the Pathfinder on Mars receives more than 100 million hits during its first four days setting new popularity records
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Microsoft begins working on its own search engine
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The google.com domain name is registered after Sergey Brin and Larry Page decide to change the name of their BackRub search engine to Google September 15, 1997
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The domain craigslist.com comes online September 24, 1997
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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4.0 and Microsoft Office 97 and announces Windows 98
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3Com buys U.S. Robotics for $6.6 billion making the consolidation the largest in the history of computer companies
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Apple releases MAC OS 8
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On August 6, 1997 Microsoft savs Apple by investing $150 million in Apple Computers Inc. and agreeing to continue creating software for Apple computers. Apple makes Microsoft Internet Explorer its browser of choice for Macintosh computers
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The Li-Ion battery begins being used for commercial purposes
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The Intel Pentium II 233 MHz processor is released
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Intel releases the AGP (Advanced Graphics Port) for Video cards in August 1997
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Steve Jobs rejoins Apple on September 16, 1997
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Riven, the sequel to Myst, is released in October 1997
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The domain netflix.com comes online November 10, 1997
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Microsoft acquires Hotmail a free e-mail service in December 1997
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1998 |
Internet weblogs (blogs) begin to appear
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Intel releases the Celeron processor
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Compaq Computer purchases Digital Equipment Corporation for $9.6 billion on January 26, 1998
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Hearings open between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice to whether Microsoft has a monopoly on the software market
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is passed as an addition to the U.S. copyright law making it illegal to circumvent any copy protection
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XML (eXtensible Markup Language) 1.0 becomes a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation on February 8, 1998
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The following are founded in 1998: Lite-on, eMachine, Rockstar Game, PayPal, Computer Hope
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3DNow! is introduced by AMD
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During the demonstration of a pre-release copy of Windows 98 an error message occurs while attempts are made to install a scanner
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The V.90 modem standard is announced on February 6, 1998
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Sun Microsystems begins shipping the JavaStation in March of 1998
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Saehan's MPMan becomes the first MP3 player released in Japan to the public in spring of 1998
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The Chernobyl virus is created and begins infecting computers by executing one year later on April 26, 1999, the same day as the Chernobyl accident in Ukraine on April 26, 1986
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Koko, a gorilla ape and student of American Sign Language holds first interspecies live Internet chat April 27, 1998
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SETI@Home ( Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is introduced on June 8, 1998
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Microsoft Windows 98 is officially released on June 25, 1998
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The "Solar Sunrise" attack is launched by two teenager hackers giving them access to more than 500 military and government computers
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Google files for incorporation in California September 4, 1998
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The CST (Computer Service Technician) certification is initiated by Electronic Technicians Association
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Microsoft Internet Explorer passes Netscape in Internet browser market share for the first time
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MySQL, an open source Relational DataBase Management System, is introduced
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Amazon purchases IMDb ( Internet Movie Database)
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Apple introduces the iMac, which helps bring Apple back on the computer scene as an easy and friendly computer
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Sony introduces the Sony Memory Stick
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In October of 1998 Microsoft announced that future releases of Windows NT would no longer have the initials of NT and that the next edition would be Windows 2000
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Microsoft acquires the advertising company LinkExchange for $265 Million USD November 6, 1998
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Half-Life, a popular First Person Shooter game, is released November 19, 1998
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AOL announces it will acquire Netscape Communications for an estimated value of $4.2 billion November 24, 1998
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1999 |
RIM releases the Blackberry on January 19, 1999
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The TiVo is introduced at the Consumer electronics show in January 1999
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Yahoo! buys GeoCities for $3.65 billion USD January 28, 1999
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The Victoria's Secret fashion show becomes the first major webcast on the Internet attracting over 1.5 million visitors on February 5, 1999
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The Intel Pentium III 500 MHz is released on February 26, 1999
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Microsoft releases Windows CE 3.0
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RDF Site Summary, the first version of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is created by Ramanathan Guha at Netscape in March of 1999
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The popular multiplayer role-playing game EverQuest is released March 16, 1999
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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 5.0 in March 18, 1999
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The first Wiki is introduces with WikiWikiWeb on March 25, 1999
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The Melissa begins infecting computers March 26, 1999 and quickly spreads around the globe via e-mail in hours
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AMD releases the Slot A processor and slot
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RSAC becomes part of Internet Content Rating Association, aimed at protecting children from potentially harmful material on the Internet
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Yahoo purchases Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion April 1, 1999
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Microsoft acquires Access software April 19, 1999
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National Semiconductor announced it will exit the PC processor market. June 30, 1999
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Apple introduces the Apple Airport, an way to connect wireless devices to a computer, on July 21, 1999
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Microsoft introduces WMV (Windows Media Video) with WMV 7
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IBM introduces the first Microdrive, the world's physically smallest hard drive capable of storing 170MB
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The Intel Pentium III 600 MHz is released on August 2, 1999
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Sony and Philips Electronics introduce SACD (Super Audio CD)
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Pyra Labs launches the Internet service Blogger August 23, 1999
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The Intel Pentium III 533B and 600B MHz is released on September 27, 1999
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NVIDIA introduces the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
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Amazon agrees to buy Accept.com, Alexa Internet (Alexa.com) and Exchange.com
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AOL purchases Nullsoft Jun 1, 1999
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Sun Microsystems acquires StarDivision, the developers behind the StarOffice suite of software
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The Intel Pentium III Coppermine series is first introduced on October 25, 1999
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The D programming language starts development
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On December 1, 1999 the most expensive Internet domain name, business.com. was sold by Marc Ostrofsky for $7.5 million which was later sold on July 26, 2007 again to R.H. Donnelley for $345 million USD
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RIAA sues Napster December 7, 1999
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Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com is named Time Person of the Year December 27, 1999
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2000 - 2020
2000 |
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Microsoft Bill Gates relinquishes his title as CEO to Microsoft President Steve Ballmer on January 13, 2000
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The domain twitter.com comes online January 21, 2000
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EA releases The Sims, the best-selling PC game in history, on February 04, 2000
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CNR (Communication and Network Riser) is introduced by Intel February 07, 2000
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Microsoft Windows 2000 is released on February 17, 2000
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U.S. Judge Thomas Penfield announced that ,after 2-years in the court, Microsoft will be split into two companies (although they can remain intact until the appeals process is exhausted)
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On March 10, 2000 NASDAQ hits its record high and marks the turning point of the dot-com boom.
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AOL acquires Time Warner and becomes AOL Time Warner
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Microsoft Pocket PC 2000 is introduced April 19, 2000
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The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act becomes effective on April 21, 2000
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ATI introduces their Radeon product line on April 24, 2000
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Young Filipino students release the ILOVEYOU e-mail virus which becomes one of the most costly viruses ever, costing over $10 billion dollars in damage
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On June 24, 2000 U.S. President Bill Clinton makes the first ever Presidential webcast announcing a new web site able to search all government resources
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Google announces it has indexed over one billion pages making it the Internet's largest search engine
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Microsoft releases Windows ME June 19, 2000 and also introduces C# to the public in June 2000
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Nielsen announces on August 17 that, for the first time, more than half of the households in America have Internet access
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Steve Wozniak is inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in September 2000
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Google launches Google AdWords with 350 customers in October of 2000
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AT&T announces in October it will restructure over the next two years into a family of separate publicly held companies: AT&T Wireless, AT&T Broadband, and AT&T
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Microsoft release DirectX 8, November 9, 2000
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The site egghead.com announces, on December 22 2000, that its site was hacked exposing the credit details of about 3.5 million customers
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2001 |
Microsoft announces on January 1, 2001 that Windows 95 is now a legacy item and will no longer be sold or shipped
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January 02, 2001 - Intel announced that it will recall its 1.13 GHz Pentium III processors due to a glitch. Users with these processors should contact their vendors for additional information about the recall
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Linus Torvalds releases version 2.4 of the Linux Kernel source code on January 4th
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Wikipedia is founded on January 15, 2001
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Google acquires its first public acquisition, Deaj.com's Usenet Service on February 13, 2001, which later becomes Google groups
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UsRobotics introduces the V.92 modem standard on February 27, 2001
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Napster reaches over 26 million users in February 2001
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Chip-making giant Intel Corp. agrees to acquire Xircom Inc., a maker of mobile computing gear, for about $748 million.
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On March 08, 2001 AOL membership surpasses 28 Million
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The HyperTransport standard is introduced
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The Code Red worm begins infecting Windows computers in July 2001 with the intention of performing a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on the White House government web page
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Jan de Wit aka OnTheFly is convicted for the Anna Kournikova virus May 27, 2001
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Bram Cohen introduces BitTorrent on a public message board July 2, 2001
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Google Image Search is introduced offering access to 250 million images in July
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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 in August 27, 2001
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The CDDB (Compact Disc Database) is officially renamed to Gracenote
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Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.0 code named Cheetah which becomes available on March 24, 2001 and then Mac OS X 10.1, code named Puma on September 25, 2001
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McAfee releases its first handheld virus protection software on March 09, 2001
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Quantum sells its hard drive business to Maxtor to turn its full attention to higher-level storage products and services
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Dell computers becomes the largest PC maker in April 2001
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June 5, 2001, Nevada becomes the first U.S. state to vote to legalize online gambling.
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Airlines begin to implement methods of gaining Internet access while flying.
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SATA 1.0 is introduced in August 2001
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USB 2.0 is introduced.
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Microsoft announces on April 11, 2001 that it will no longer include Clippy with future releases of Microsoft Office
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Hewlett Packard announces plans to buy Compaq on September 6, 2001
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Apple introduces the iPod which goes on sale in October 23, 2001
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On October 9, 2001 AMD announces a new branding scheme no longer identifying processors by their clock speed
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Microsoft Windows XP home and professional editions are released in October 25, 2001
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Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2002) for Itanium systems is released
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Microsoft releases the original Xbox game console on November 15, 2001
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Rhapsody, digital music service, is introduced in December of 2001
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Dean Kamen unveils the Segway on December 3, 2001
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By December 2001 the Google search engine is indexing over three billion web documents
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2002 |
In February 2002 Google releases its first hardware device called the Google Search Appliance
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Excite@Home, one of the largest ISP's files for bankruptcy and closes its doors on March, 02, 2002
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Gentoo, a version of Linux is released March 31, 2002
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Napster files for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 3, 2002
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PCI Express is approved as standard
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Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.2 code named Jaguar which becomes available on August 23, 2002
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Cartoon turtle named "Dewie" introduced to help promote Internet safety and security
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PayPal is acquired by eBay on October 3, 2002
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Iomega discontinues the Jaz drive
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Roxio acquires the Napster name and logo in a bankruptcy auction on November 25, 2002
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Hitachi purchases IBM's hard disk drive operation for $2.05 billion
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Microsoft releases DirectX 9, December 19, 2002
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In December 2002 Google introduces Froogle, which allows users to search for items to buy
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2003 |
The Slammer worm is first released in January 2003 and becomes the fastest spreading worm in history after infecting hundreds of thousands of computers in less than three hours
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Google acquires Blogger on February 17, 2003
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PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) announces the development of a new standard codenamed NEWCARD on February 19, 2003
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Intel Pentium M is introduced in March
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Puppy Linux, designed to be small, portable, and easy to use is introduced.
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Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2003) for Itanium 2 systems is released on March 28, 2000 |
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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is released March 28, 2003
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Apple opens the iTunes store on April 28, 2003
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The first D Conference is held in May to discuss "all things digital"
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The H.264 standard related to video compression and standards is completed in May 2003.
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Internet site LinkedIn launches on May 5, 2003
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Yahoo! acquires Overture for $1.63 billion on June 14, 2003
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The game Second Life is released on June 23, 2003
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Windows Mobile 2003 is released on June 23, 2003
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The Safari Internet browser is released on June 30, 2003
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The Mozilla Foundation is officially formed on July 15, 2003.
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The Internet VoIP service Skype goes public on August 29, 2003
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Valve introduces Steam to allow distribution of games in September 12, 2003
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Intel
announces the new
BTX form factor to replace the ATX motherboard standard |
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Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.3 code named Panther October 25, 2003.
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Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003 is released on December 18, 2003
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Google releases Google Print in December 2003, which later becomes Google Book Search
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2004 |
MySpace official site is launched January 2004
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Google jumps into the Social Networking with the release of Orkut in January 2004
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The Mydoom computer virus with 250,000 infected computer begins its attack on February 1, 2004
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In February 2004 Google is indexing six billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images
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Mark Zuckerberg launches Thefacebook on February 4, 2004, which later becomes Facebook
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The photo sharing site Flickr is launched in March of 2004
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Comcast purchases TechTV March 25, 2004 to form G4TechTV.
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Google announces Gmail on April 1, 2004 - many people take it as an April Fools joke
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The SymbOS/Cabir virus, the first known mobile phone virus, is discovered June 14, 2004 and is capable of spreading to other Symbian phones over Bluetooth
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Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.4 code named Tiger at the WWDC on June 28, 2004
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Apple introduces AirPlay which allows for wireless streaming of audio and other types of media between specific devices
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COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) goes into effect in USA on July 1, 2004
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Google acquires Picasa
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Google's initial public offering (IPO) of 19,605,052 shares becomes available at $85 a share August 18, 2004
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Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is released on October 12, 2004
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Google acquires Keyhole in October 2004, which later becomes Google Earth
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The first version of Ubuntu is released October 20, 2004
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Firefox 1.0 is first introduced on November 9, 2004
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Blizzard's World of Warcraft game, the most popular and successful MMORPG is released November 23, 2004
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IBM sells its computing division to Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion on December 08, 2004
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2005 |
Google Maps is launched February 8, 2005.
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YouTube is founded and comes online February 15, 2005.
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Google acquires Urchin in March 2005, which later becomes Google Analytics
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Verizon introduces FiOS (Fiber Optic Service), a type of data transmission technology utilizing laser light to create fiber optic networks
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Yahoo announces that it will acquire the popular photo service Flickr on March 21, 2005
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Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is introduced on March 22, 2005
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The first YouTube video entitled "Me at the zoo" is uploaded on April 23, 2005
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Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is released on April 24, 2005
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Google introduces its Personalized Homepage in May 2005, which is now known as iGoogle
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Apple announces it plans on switching its computer to the Intel processors June 6, 2005
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Microsoft announces it's next operating system, codenamed "Longhorn" will be named Windows Vista on July 23, 2005
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IBM officially announces on July 14, 2005 that all sales of OS/2 will end on December 23, 2005 and that all support from IBM for OS/2 will end on December 16, 2005
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MySpace is purchased by News Corporation for $580 Million US on July 18, 2005
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On September 12, 2005 eBay acquired Skype for approximately $2.6billion
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The Pandora Internet Radio service is launched August 25, 2005
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Google releases Google Analytics in November 2005.
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TeamViewer is founded enabling remote control, desktop sharing and file transfer between computers
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Microsoft releases the Xbox 360, the second generation of their popular game console on November 16, 2005
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Adobe completes its acquisition of Macromedia on December 3, 2005
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Yahoo! buys del.icio.us for $20 million December 12, 2005
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Maxtor is acquired by Seagate Technology December 21, 2005
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2006 |
The blu-ray is first announced and introduced at the 2006 Consumer Electronic Show on January 4, 2006
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On January 5, 2006 Intel introduces the Intel Core and Viiv
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Google introduces Picasa
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On March 2, 2006 Wikipedia volunteers create the article that passes the 1,000,000 article mark
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Google announces acquisition of Writely in March 2006, which becomes the basis for Google Docs
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Toshiba releases the first HD DVD player in Japan on March 31, 2006
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Apple announces Boot Camp, which will allow users to run Windows XP on their computers April 5, 2006
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Google launches Google Calendar in April 2006
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Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E6320 (4M Cache, 1.86 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) on April 22, , the Core 2 Duo Processor E6300 (2M Cache, 1.86 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) on July 27 and the Intel Core 2 Extreme on July 29, 2006
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Dell purchases Alienware on May 8, 2006
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Toshiba releases the first HD DVD player in a computer with the introduction of the Toshiba Qosmio 35 on May 16, 2006
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Twttr, now known as Twitter is officially launched July 15, 2006
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On August 6, 2006 MySpace announces its 106 millionth account was created
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Amazon.com opens its Amazon Web Service
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Skype announced that it had over 100 million registered users.
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The Microsoft XNA tool set is released August 30, 2006 providing templates for video game development
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The GIF standard and pictures becomes officially free on October 1, 2006
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Google announces plans to purchase YouTube for 1.65 Billion on October 9, 2006
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is introduced October 18, 2006
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Google launches its Custom Search Engine service on October 23, 2006
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USA Patriot Act becomes law on October 26, 2006, giving law enforcement reduced restrictions on searching telephone, e-mail, and other forms of communication and records
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Google acquires JotSpot on October 31, 2006, which later becomes Google Sites.
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Sony releases the PlayStation 3 on November 11, 2006
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On November 14, 2006 Microsoft released its portable Zune media player
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Nintendo releases the Wii on November 19, 2006
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Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows Vista to corporations on November 30, 2006
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Google introduces Patent search December 13, 2006, which searches over 7 million patents
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2007 |
Apple announces in January 1, 2007 that it will drop computer from its name as it becomes a company which deals with more than computers
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Apple introduces the iPhone to the public at the January 9, 2007 at the Macworld Conference & Expo and releases it to the public on June 29, 2007
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Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4300 (2M Cache, 1.80 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) on January 21, the Core2 Duo Processor E4400 (2M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) on April 22, 2007 and the Core2 Duo Processor E4500 (2M Cache, 2.20 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) in July 22, 2007
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Dropbox, a free online service that allows users to upload their pictures, documents, and other files to sharebetween multiple computers and mobile devices is founded
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Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 to the general public January 30, 2007
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Estonia becomes the first country to conduct an election over the Internet March 4, 2007
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Apple announces it will begin selling DRM-Free songs April 2, 2007.
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Google announces it will purchase DoubleClick (an Internet advertising company) for $3.1 billion in cash
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Google releases Google Trends on May 22, 2007 and Google Street View on May 25, 2007
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Data Robotics introduces the Drobo in June enabling easy connection of multiple drives and improving data security and safety
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DDR3 is introduced significantly improving RAM speed and capabilities
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The
Apple iPhone
Jailbreaking method is introduced to the public on July 10, 2007 |
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The Internet domain name business.com is sold on July 26, 2007 to R.H. Donnelley for $345 Million USD
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Google releases Android on November 5, 2007
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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is introduced to the public November 16, 2007
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Amazon.com releases the first Kindle in the United States November 19, 2007
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Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.5 code named Leopard October 26, 2007
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2008 |
Acer officially acquires Packard Bell on January 31, 2008
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The HD player war comes to an end when HD DVD calls it quits, making Blu-ray the victor on February 19, 2008
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Microsoft release the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) program February 27, 2008
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AOL ends support for the Netscape Internet browser on March 1, 2008
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Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4700 (2M Cache, 2.60 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) March 2, 2008, the Core 2 Duo E7200 (3M Cache, 2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) on April 20, 200, the Core2 Duo Processor E7300 (3M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) August 10, 2008 and the Core2 Duo Processor E7400 (3M Cache, 2.80 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) October 19, 2008
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The Hulu website is released to the Public March 12, 2008 enabling the viewing of TV shows on the web
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Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.6 code named Snow Leopard and MobileMe on June 9, 2008
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The ATSC approves H.264 to be broadcast over television in July 2008
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Apple introduces its latest line of Apple iMac computers on August 28, 2008
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Google releases the first public version of Chrome on December 11, 2008
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2009 |
Google voice, based off GrandCentral is launched on March 11, 2009
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is introduced on March 19, 2009.
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Apple removes support for AppleTalk in August 28, 2009 with its introduction of Mac OS X v10.6 that also is the first version of the Mac OS that no longer supports PowerPC processors
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Google announces plans to acquire reCAPATCHA
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Facebook overtakes MySpace in Internet traffic
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The Minecraft game is released
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Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E7500 (3M Cache, 2.93 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) January 18, 2009, the Core2 Duo Processor E7600 (3M Cache, 3.06 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) May 31, 2009
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Microsoft launches the Bing search engine June 3, 2009
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CompuServe shuts down on July 1, 2009
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Google announces the Google Chrome OS on July 7, 2009.
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After more than five years in beta, Gmail finally gets out of beta on July 7, 2009.
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On July 29, 2009 Yahoo! and Microsoft announced a 10-year search deal where the Yahoo! search would be replaced by Bing
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Microsoft releases Virtual PC on September 19, 2009, Microsoft Security Essentials on September 30, 2009 and Windows 7 on October 22, 2009
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Palm introduces WebOS a new operating system for smart phones
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2010 |
Apple introduces the iPad on January 27, 2010
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Google Buzz is released February 9, 2010
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Apple announces over 10 billion tracks have been downloaded from iTunes
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Hewlett Packard purchases the Palm company, and the rights to WebOS, in April 2010
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Apple introduces the iPhone 4 on June 24, 2010
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Amazon releases a press release on July 19, 2010 mentioning it is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books
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The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice September 28, 2010
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Intel releases the AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) specification in October 2010
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Microsoft announces plans to release Windows Phone 7 on October 11, 2010
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First all-robotic surgery performed at Montreal General Hospital on October 13, 2010
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OpenStack, an open source cloud computing service, is established.
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MachinimaSports becomes the 1 billionth subscriber on YouTube on October 28, 2010.
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United States Cyber Command achieves full operational capability on November 5, 2010.
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Planet Calypso, a virtual planet in the game Entropia becomes the most valuable virtual item selling for $635,000.00 USD on November 12, 2010.
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2011 |
Intel Sandy Bridge processor is released on January 9, 2011
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Watson, an IBM Super computer beats the two best human Jeopardy players in a three day event with a score greater than the two human players combined on February 16, 2011
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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9 on March 14, 2011
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Microsoft announces plans on May 10, 2011 to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion in cash
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Microsoft introduces Office 365 on June 28, 2011
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On June 29, 2011 Newscorp sells MySpace to Specific Media L.L.C for $35 million, around $473 million less than it initially paid
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On August 18, 2011 Hewlett Packard announces an interest in selling its Personal Systems Group, including WebOS. |
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Steve Jobs resigns as Apple's CEO due to health reasons on August 24, 2011.
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Motorola releases the Xoom, a 10 inch tablet running Android 3.0 Honeycomb
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RIM releases the BlackBerry Playbook running BlackBerry Tablet OS, based on the QNX Neutrino
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Dell showcases the Streak 7 tablet and announces it isworking on the 10 inch Streak 10
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Apple announces the iPad 2
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Toshiba unveils the Toshiba Tablet, a 10 inch tablet powered by a Tegra 2 processor and Android 3.0 Honeycomb
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Samsung announces the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9, the world's thinnest tablets, running Android 3.0 Honeycomb with a Touchwiz UX User Interface |
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HP releases the HP TouchPad with WebOS & withdraws it in August 2011, a couple of months later
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2012 |
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Facebook buys Instagram for 1 billion dollars in cash and stock in April 2012
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Google and several other companies migrate to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) on June 6, 2012
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Pinterest, a photo sharing site, is made available to everyone on August 10, 2012
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Apple iPhone 5 goes on sale September 21, 2012
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YouTube breaks an Internet record as over 8 million concurrent live viewers watch Felix Baumgartner break his own record by jumping from the edge of space (128,100 feet) on October 15, 2012
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Apple introduces the iPad mini October 23, 2012
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Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface is released October 26, 2012
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The number of smart phones worldwide reaches 1 billion. It took 14 years to reach this number and it is estimated that it will take only 3 more years to reach 2 billion
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Tablet computers become the fastest adopted technology hardware with a 10% adoption rate over 2.5 years
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It wasn't the end of the world on December 21, 2012 as the Mayans predicted but the video Gangnam Style hit over 1 billion views on YouTube
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2013 |
Microsoft announces in February that it will be moving away from Hotmail brand and begin moving over 300 million users to the new Outlook.com e-mail service |
Sony officially announces the PlayStation 4, a replacement for the PS3 gaming console on February 20, 2013 |
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On March 15, 2013 Microsoft discontinued Messenger in favour of Skype |
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Yahoo! announces it will purchase Tumblr for 1.1Billion on May 20th, 2013 |
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Microsoft introduces the Xbox One on May 21, 2013, a new gaming console to replace the Xbox 360 |
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Google announces it will purchase Waze, a popular mobile social map application for $1.1Billion on June 11, 2013 |
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On July 6, 2013 Microsoft announced that they are shutting down MSN TV and will be officially closing the service September 30, 2013 |
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IDG announces on July 10, 2013 that the August edition of PC World magazine will be the last print edition of the magazine |
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The Furusawa group at the University of Tokyo succeeds in demonstrating complete quantum teleportation of photonic quantum bits on September 11, 2013, bringing quantum computer even closer to reality |
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Apple introduces iOS7 on September 18, 2013 |
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Microsoft releases Windows 8.1 on October 18, 2013 |
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Sony releases the PS4 November 15, 2013 |
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In the fourth quarter of 2013 the number of computers (Macs, iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads) sold by Apple was greater than the number of Windows PCs sold globally for the first time |
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2014 |
Satya Nadella takes over as Microsoft CEO on February 4, 2014 |
On February 7, 2014 the Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox filed for bankruptcy after $460 million was reported stolen by hackers and another $27.4 million went missing from its bank accounts |
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The Nokia deal with Microsoft is completed April 25, 2014 making Nokia now Microsoft Mobile in a deal totalling $7.17 billion |
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Apple introduces the new iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and Apple Watch on September 9, 2014 |
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The Macworld magazine announced it will cease all print production on September 10, 2014 |
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Microsoft unveils Windows 10 on September 30, 2014 |
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On October 1, 2014 a Japanese man is sentenced to two years in prison for manufacturing 3D printed guns becoming the first person to serve time for such an offence |
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Android version 5.0 (Lollipop) released November 3, 2014 |
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2015 |
Microsoft reveals HoloLens , a high-definition holographic interface using a small, wireless headset. on January 21, 2015 |
RadioShack files for bankruptcy February 6, 2015 |
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Apple officially releases the Apple Watch on April 24, 2015 |
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Microsoft releases Windows 10 on July 29, 2015 |
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Google splits into two companies on August 10, 2015 |
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Android version 6.0 (Marshmallow) released October 5, 2015 |
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Microsoft releases the Surface Book on October 26, 2015 |
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Hewlett-Packard splits into two different companies on November 1, 2015 |
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2016 |
Fixstars Solutions releases the world's first 13TB SSD on January 13, 2016 |
On March 4, 2016 scientists at MIT announce that they have created the first five-atom quantum computer with the potential to crack the security of traditional encryption schemes |
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In March, 2016 Google’s AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence system designed expressly to win the ancient Chinese game of Go, defeats grandmaster Lee Se-Dol four times during a five-game match. |
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Google announces that on March 15, 2016 it will shut down Picasa. |
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Pokémon GO is released July 6,for Android phones and iPhone and is downloaded more than 10 million times within a week becoming the fastest growing app in history, |
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Google releases Android version 7.0 (Nougat) August 22, 2016 |
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On September 16 , 2016 Apple announces the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus and how they have discontinued the 3.5mm headphone jack. |
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On October 4 , 2016 Google introduces the Pixel smartphone, new Wi-Fi routers, a virtual reality headset, new Chromecast devices, and the Google Home. |
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2017 |
AMD introduced the Vega on January 5, 2017 |
On January 11, 2017, Norway became the first country to start switching off FM Radio and switching to DAB, a digital broadcasting technology |
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Microsoft began to release the Windows 10 Creators Update to users in April 2017 |
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On May 12, 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack began to infect computers running Microsoft Windows, affecting more than 230,000 computers in over 150 different countries, demanding $300 - $1,200 in bitcoin to unlock the computers encrypted data |
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Microsoft introduced the Surface Pro 2017 (fifth gen) and the Surface Laptop on June 15, 2017 |
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Twitter officially expands everyone's character limit from 140 characters to 280 characters on November 7, 2017 |
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On November 14, 2017, Mozilla announced the release of Firefox Quantum |
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Google begins releasing Google Assistant on smartphones |
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On July 11, 2017, Microsoft announced the immediate end of support for Windows Phone |
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On July 28, 2017, Apple announced it was discontinuing all iPod devices that were not running iOS. The iPod models marked as discontinued include the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle |
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Apple introduced the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 plus, with a new edge-to-edge iPhone X with Face ID on September 12, 2017 |
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) begins developing a new "Molecular Informatics" program that uses molecules as computers by using Chemistry to offera rapid, scalable information storage and processing |
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2018 |
Apple introduces the Apple HomePod on February 9 |
On May 21, 2018, Epic Games announces it would provide $100 million for Fortnite e-sports tournament price pools in the first year of competitive play |
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The European Union GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) law comes into effect on May 25, 2018 |
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Google introduces the Google Pay service for all Android and iOS devices on January 8, 2018 |
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Microsoft releases the Surface Go on August 2, 2018 |
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On June 4, 2018, Microsoft announces it would acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion |
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In July 2018, Radioshack is reborn, and sells its products within HobbyTown locations nationwide |
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On October 28, 2018, IBM announce its plans to acquire Red Hat for approximately $34 billion |
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2019 |
Computed axial lithography, a 3-D printing technology is developed by UC Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is announced in January |
On January 9, Lexar announces the first SD cardwhich can store 1 terabyte |
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The first folding smartphones are introduced in February by Samsung (Galaxy Fold) and Huawei (Mate X) |
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Google introduced the Google Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL on May 7, 2019 and the Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL on October 24, 2019 |
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Hewlett Packard announced the purchase of Cray for $1.3 billion on May 17, 2019 |
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Google begins drone based deliveries via Google Wing |
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Apple releases the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max in September 2019 |
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Microsoft introduced the Surface Duo on October 2, 2019 |
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Google announced it would be acquiring Fitbit for $2.1 billion on November 1, 2019 |
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Disney+ is introduced in 2019 |
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Samsung releases the Galaxy S10, S10e, and S10+ and Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ smartphones |
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IBM Q System One, the first commercial quantum computer from IBM, is announced |
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Google makes cloud gaming mainstream with Stadia |
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IPv4 internet addresses are exhausted |
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2020 |
On January 14, Windows 7 reached EOL (end-of-life) and Microsoft ceases providing any support or security updates for Windows 7, and strongly advised users to upgrade to Windows 10 |
On January 5, Samsung announced the Q950TS, a bezel-free 8K QLED Smart TV |
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On January 6, Amazon announced that its Fire TV video streaming devices exceeded 40 million global active users |
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On January 6, Lenovo announced the Yoga 5G, a 5G-capable laptop |
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On January 16, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, joined the "four-comma club," achieving a market valuation over $1 trillion. The other two members of the club at the time were Apple ($1.3 trillion) and Microsoft ($1.2 trillion). The next closest company, Amazon ($930 billion), briefly joined the club in 2018 |
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On January 29, Facebook agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in Illinois regarding facial recognition data collected from users without their consent |
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In early February, the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus causes significant disruption to the worldwide technology industry. Google announces the temporary closure of all offices in mainland China, and all Apple stores in China are also closed indefinitely. Companies including Qualcomm, Nintendo, and Facebook Oculus announce major losses in production from their factories located in China. The Chinese government reported a 50% decrease in smartphone sales |
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On February 4, Twitter announced a commitment to detect and label deep-fakes, and other deceptive media, on its social media platform |
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In May, Giphy is purchased by Facebook |