| Year |
Event |
| 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 |
IBM introduces the butterfly keyboard. |
| 1995 |
The dot-com boom starts. |
| 1995 |
Code named Utopia, Microsoft Bob is introduced to the public January 5, 1995
at the CES by Bill Gates. |
| 1995 |
The first Wiki is created. |
| 1995 |
Yahoo.com domain is registered on January 18, 1995. |
| 1995 |
Allen Coombs passes away January 30, 1995 (Age: 84) |
| 1995 |
George Stibitz passes away on January 31, 1995 (Age: 91) |
| 1995 |
Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI on February 15, 1999. |
| 1995 |
EPoX is founded in February |
| 1995 |
The first VoIP software (Vocaltec) is released allowing end users to make voice calls over the Internet. |
| 1995 |
Apple develops FireWire. |
| 1995 |
O'Reilly Media sells the Global Network Navigator ("GNN") to AOL in
1995. |
| 1995 |
Netscape introduces SSL in February of
1995. |
| 1995 |
Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested February 15, 1995. |
| 1995 |
Yahoo! is incorporated March 1, 1995. |
| 1995 |
Perl 5.001 is released March 13, 1995. |
| 1995 |
Transmeta is founded. |
| 1995 |
Tundra is founded. |
| 1995 |
Matsonic is founded. |
| 1995 |
Arnold I. Dumey passes away. |
| 1995 |
The Opera browser version 1 is released April 1, 1995. |
| 1995 |
John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert, Jr. passes away June 3, 1995. |
| 1995 |
John Vincent Atanasoff passes away on June 15, 1995 at the age
of 91. |
| 1995 |
The movie 'The Net' with Sandra Bullock is released July 28, 1995. |
| 1995 |
Silicon Image is founded. |
| 1995 |
SegaSoft is founded. |
| 1995 |
HighPoint Technologies is founded. |
| 1995 |
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 1.0 on August
16, 1995. |
| 1995 |
The domain ebay.com comes online August 4, 1995. |
| 1995 |
Netscape goes public at $28.00 a share and by the closing ends at $58.00 a share. |
| 1995 |
The first E3 is held in Las Vegas Nevada. |
| 1995 |
Intel introduces the SMBus. |
| 1995 |
Microsoft and General Electrics NBC television network form a partnership. |
| 1995 |
LiveScript is renamed to JavaScript. |
| 1995 |
Java is introduced. |
| 1995 |
The Iomega Jaz drive is introduced. |
| 1995 |
Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 was released May 30, 1995. |
| 1995 |
Microsoft Releases Windows 95, within four days the
software sells more than 1 million copies. |
| 1995 |
PHP is publicly released June 8, 1995. |
| 1995 |
One of the largest and well known e-commerce sites today opens its website for the first time.
Amazon.com is officially opened July of 1995. |
| 1995 |
MARGI is founded. |
| 1995 |
Real is founded. |
| 1995 |
DSVD is released. |
| 1995 |
WebTV Networks is founded. |
| 1995 |
EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar. |
| 1995 |
Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia. |
| 1995 |
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 2.0 on November
22, 1995 and officially starts the browser war between Netscape. |
| 1995 |
CD-E is introduced to the general public. |
| 1995 |
Ruby is released. |
| 1995 |
eBay is founded on September 3, 1995. |
| 1995 |
The movie Hackers is released September 15, 1995. |
| 1995 |
On September 20, 1995 AT&T splits into three separate publically traded companies: a systems and equipment
company, a computer company, and a communications services company. |
| 1995 |
Microsoft releases DirectX 1.0 (4.02.0095) on September
30, 1995. |
| 1995 |
EDO memory is introduced. |
| 1995 |
Intel releases the new motherboard form factor ATX in July of 1995. |
| 1995 |
Lotus becomes a part of IBM. |
| 1995 |
The first computer network wiretap is authorized October 23, 1995 and leads later to the arrest of Julio Cesar
Ardita. |
| 1995 |
CPAN is introduced October 26, 1995. |
| 1995 |
Intel introduces the Intel Pentium Pro in
November. |
| 1995 |
Toy Story is released November 22, 1995 becoming the first movie that is completely computer generated. |
| 1995 |
HTML 2.0 standard is first published in RFC 1866 November 24, 1995. |
| 1995 |
Larry Page and Sergey Brin begin
developing a search engine called BackRub with PageRank, an important technology that becomes an important
part of Google. |
| 1995 |
On December 4, 1995 Sun Microsystems announced JavaScript and first releases
it in Netscape 2.0B3. In the same year they also introduced Java. |
| 1995 |
IBM unveils Deep Blue December 5, 1995, a parallel computing system that will later
play the World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov. |
| 1995 |
Internet search engine AltaVista launches December 15, 1995. |
| 1995 |
Konrad Zuse passes away December 18, 1995 |
| 1995 |
USB standard is released. |
