Computer History - 1995
| 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 | Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI. |
| 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 | Netscape introduces SSL in February of 1995. |
| 1995 | Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested February 15, 1995. |
| 1995 | Perl 5.001 is released March 13, 1995. |
| 1995 | The Opera browser version 1 is released April 1, 1995. |
| 1995 | John Vincent Atanasoff passes away on June 15, 1995 at the age of 91. |
| 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 | 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 | 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. |
| 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. |
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