| 1998 | Internet weblogs begin to appear. |
| 1998 | Intel releases the Celeron processor. |
| 1998 | Compaq Computer purchases Digital Equipment Corporation for $9.6 billion on January 26, 1998. |
| 1998 | Hearings open between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice to whether Microsoft has a monopoly on the software market. |
| 1998 | The DMCA is passed. |
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1998 | XML
1.0 becomes a W3C recommendation on
February 8, 1998. |
| 1998 | ATA-4 is approved by ANSI. |
| 1998 | Lite-on is founded. |
| 1998 | eMachines is founded. |
| 1998 | 3DNow! is introduced by AMD. |
| 1998 | Sun releases the JavaStation |
| 1998 | Bill Gates, is hit in the face with a cream pie. |
| 1998 | During the demonstration of a pre-release copy of Windows 98 at Comdex Bill Gates and an assistant demonstrate how to install a scanner. During the demonstration Windows 98 caused an error message. |
| 1998 | V.90 modem standard is announced and agreed on February 6, 1998 |
| 1998 | Sun Microsystems begins shipping the JavaStation in March of 1998. |
| 1998 | Saehan's MPMan becomes the first MP3 player released in Japan to the public in spring of 1998. |
| 1998 | The CIH virus also known as Chernobyl virus is created and begins infecting computers and starts executing one year later on April 26, 1999 the same day as the Chernobyl accident in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. |
|
1998 | Koko, a gorilla ape and student of
American Sign Language holds first interspecies live Internet chat April 27,
1998. |
| 1998 | SETI@Home is introduced on June 8, 1998. |
| 1998 | Microsoft Windows 98 is officially released on June 25, 1998. |
|
1998 | The domain computerhope.com comes
online July 14, 1998. |
|
1998 | Perl
5.005 is released July 22, 1998. |
| 1998 | The "Solar Sunrise" attack is launched by two teenager hackers and gives them access to more than 500 military government computers. |
| 1998 | Google
files for incorporation in California September 4, 1998. |
| 1998 | The CST is initiated by ETA. |
| 1998 | AMR is released September 9, 1998 |
|
1998 | Google
hires Craig Silverstein as its first employee. |
|
1998 | Microsoft
Internet Explorer passes
Netscape in Internet
browser market share for the first time as
reported in a September 28, 1998 International Data Corporation report. |
| 1998 | Rockstar Games is founded. |
| 1998 | MySQL is introduced. |
| 1998 | PayPal is founded. |
| 1998 | Amazon purchases IMDb. |
| 1998 | Apple introduces the iMac, the iMac helps bring Apple back on the computer maps as a very easy and friendly computer. |
| 1998 | Award, well known for its computer BIOS becomes part of Phoenix, another company well known for its computer BIOS. |
|
1998 | Sony
introduces the Sony Memory Stick. |
| 1998 | 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. |
| 1998 | Computer Hope is established in November
1, 1998. |
| 1998 | Microsoft
acquires the advertising company LinkExchange for $265 Million USD November 6,
1998. |
| 1998 |
Valve
Half-Life a popular FPS game is released November 19, 1998. |
|
1998 |
AOL announces it will acquire
Netscape Communications for an estimated
value of $4.2 billion November 24, 1998. |
