Computer history 2000 to today

YearEvent
2000Computers continue to work and the world doesn't come to an end on January 1, 2000 as some feared might happen because of the year 2000 bug.
2000A glitch in a computer in the Washing D.C. air traffic control causes a shutdown of air traffic across the U.S. East Coast January 6, 2000.
2000AOL acquires Time Warner and becomes AOL Time Warner
2000Microsoft Bill Gates relinquishes his title as CEO to Microsoft President Steve Ballmer on January 13, 2000.
2000The domain twitter.com comes online January 21, 2000.
2000EA releases The Sims, the best-selling PC game in history February 04, 2000.
2000CNR is introduced by Intel February 07, 2000.
2000Microsoft Windows 2000 was released February 17, 2000.
2000U.S. Judge Thomas Penfield announced today after over 2-years in the court that Microsoft be split into two companies although will remain intact until the appeals process is exhausted.
2000On March 10, 2000 NASDAQ hits its record high and marks the turning point of the dot-com boom.
2000Perl 5.6 is released March 22, 2000.
2000Microsoft Pocket PC 2000 is introduced April 19, 2000.
2000The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act becomes effective April 21, 2000.
2000ATI introduces their Radeon product line on April 24, 2000.
2000Young Filipino students releases the ILOVEYOU e-mail virus that begins infecting computers and spreading over the Internet starting on May 4, 2000. The virus becomes one of the most costly viruses ever, estimated causing over $10 billion dollars in damage because of the steps involved in cleaning a computer after it has been infected.
2000On June 24, 2000 U.S. President Bill Clinton makes the first ever Presidential webcast among the announcements President Bill Clinton announces a new web site that will be able to search all government resources.
2000Jack Kilby is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
2000ATA-5 is approved by ANSI.
2000 Google announces it has indexed over one billion pages making it the Internet's largest search engine.
2000Microsoft releases Windows ME June 19, 2000.
2000Microsoft introduces C# to the public in June 2000.
2000For the first time more than half of the households in America have Internet access on August 17, 2000 according to Nielsen.
2000AT&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.
2000 Steve Wozniak is inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in September 2000.
2000 Google launches Google AdWords with 350 customers in October of 2000.
2000Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev become the first to enter the International Space Station November 2, 2000 in what later becomes the longest continuously inhabited spacecraft.
2000Microsoft release DirectX 8, November 9, 2000.
2000The site egghead.com announces December 22, 2000 its site was hacked and that around 3.5 million customers credit cards were exposed.
2001Microsoft announces on January 1, 2001 Windows 95 is now a legacy item and will no longer be sold or shipped to any more customers.
2001January  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.
2001Linus Torvalds releases version 2.4 of the Linux Kernel source code on January 4th.
2001The domain wikipedia.org comes online January 13, 2001.
2001 Wikipedia is founded on January 15, 2001.
2001 Google acquires its first public acquisition: Deaj.com's Usenet Service on February 13, 2001, which later becomes Google groups.
2001UsRobotics introduces the V.92 modem standard February 27, 2001.
2001Napster reaches over 26 million users February 2001.
2001The man who practically invented the Silicon Valley success story, Hewlett-Packard Co. co-founder William Hewlett, dies at his home, he was 87.
2001Chip-making giant Intel Corp. has agreed to acquire Xircom Inc., a maker of mobile computing gear, for about $748 million.
2001Claude Elwood Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation of modern information theory while working at Bell Labs in the 1940s, died on February 24, 2001. He was 85.
2001 On March 08, 2001 AOL membership surpasses 28 Million.
2001The Mir Russian Space station reenters Earth's atmosphere March 23, 2001 and breaks up after 15-years in space.
2001The HyperTransport standard is introduced.
2001 The Code Red worm begins infecting Windows computers in July 2001 with the intention of performing a DDoS attack on the White House government web page. The worm is estimated in causing $2 billion in damages and never succeeded in it's attack.
2001 Jan de Wit aka OnTheFly is convicted for the Anna Kournikova virus May 27, 2001.
2001 Bram Cohen introduces BitTorrent on a public message board July 2, 2001.
2001 Google Image Search is introduced offering access to 250 million images in July.
2001Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 in August 27, 2001.
2001The CDDB is officially renamed to Gracenote.
2001Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.0 code named Cheetah and becomes available March 24, 2001.
2001March 09, McAfee releases first handheld virus protection software.
2001After 21 years of selling hard drives, Quantum sells its hard drive business to Maxtor to turn its full attention to higher-level storage products and services March 31, 2001.
2001April 20, Dell computers becomes the largest PC maker.
2001June 5, 2001, Nevada becomes the first U.S. state to vote to legalize online gambling.
2001Airlines begin to implement methods of gaining Internet access while flying.
2001Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.1 code named Puma and becomes available on September 25, 2001.
2001USB 2.0 is introduced.
2001Microsoft announces April 11, 2001 that it will no longer include Clippy with future releases of Microsoft Office.
2001July 20, 2001 - PC shipments worst since 1986, as only Dell grows.
2001Egghead files for Bankruptcy protection on August 18, 2001.
2001SATA 1.0 is introduced in August 2001.
2001AST Computers goes out of business and stops selling computers.
2001Hewlett Packard announces plans to buy Compaq on September 6, 2001.
2001Apple introduces the iPod and it goes on sell October 23, 2001.
2001On October 9, 2001 AMD announces a new branding scheme. Instead of identifying processors by their clock speed the AMD XP will bear monikers of 1800+, 1700+, 1600+ and 1500+, with each lower model number representing a lower clock speed.
2001Microsoft Windows XP home and professional editions are released October 25, 2001.
2001Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2002) for Itanium systems is released.
2001IBM starts the Eclipse project.
2001The domain Stumbleupon.com comes online November 4, 2001.
2001Microsoft releases the original Xbox game console November 15, 2001.
2001Dean Kamen unveils the Segway December 3, 2001.
2001The "Goner" virus is first discovered December 4, 2001 and ends up costing an estimated eighty-million dollars in damage.
2001In December 2001 the Google search engine is now indexing three billion web documents.
2002In February 2002 Google releases its first hardware device called the Google Search Appliance.
2002Excite@Home, one of the largest ISP's files for bankruptcy and closes its doors March, 02, 2002.
2002 Gentoo is released March 31, 2002.
2002Approximately 1 billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the mid-'70s, according to a study released by consulting firm Gartner.
2002 Jan de Wit aka OnTheFly is convicted May 1, 2002 for the Anna Kournikova virus.
2002Napster files for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 3, 2002.
2002WorldCom the Number 2 long-distance telephone and data service company files for bankruptcy June 21, 2002.
2002PCI Express is approved as standard.
2002Perl 5.8 is released July 18, 2002.
2002The first Trackback is used on Movable Type.
2002 Edsger Dijkstra passes away August 6, 2002.
2002Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.2 code named Jaguar and becomes available on August 23, 2002.
2002Cartoon turtle named "Dewie" introduced to help promote Internet safety and security.
2002The first of code that would later become Mozilla Firefox is made available September 23, 2002.
2002PayPal is acquired by eBay on October 3, 2002.
2002 Keith Uncapher passes away October 10, 2002.
2002Iomega discontinues the Jaz drive.
2002Roxio acquires the Napster name and logo in a bankruptcy auction on November 25, 2002.
2002 Hitachi closes deal to purchase IBM's hard disk drive operation for $2.05 billion.
2002 Microsoft releases DirectX 9, December 19, 2002.
2002 In December 2002 Google introduces Froogle, which allows users to search for stuff to buy.
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.
2003Google acquires Blogger February 17, 2003.
2003PCMCIA announces the development of a new standard codenamed NEWCARD on February 19, 2003.
2003Supreme court rules that sex offenders information and pictures can be posted online on March 3, 2003.
2003Intel Pentium M is introduced in March.
2003 Puppy Linux is introduced.
2003SCO files a $1 billion USD lawsuit against IBM March 6, 2003 for allegedly devaluing its version of UNIX by contributing its intellectual property to the codebase of Linux.
2003Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2003) for Itanium 2 systems is released on March 28, 2003.
2003Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is released March 28, 2003.
2003Apple opens the iTunes store April 28, 2003.
2003The first computer is infected with the Spybot worm on April 16, 2003.
2003The first D Conference is held in May.
2003Internet site LinkedIn launches May 5, 2003.
2003Yahoo! acquires Overture for $1.63 billion June 14, 2003.
2003 The game Second Life is released June 23, 2003.
2003 Windows Mobile 2003 on June 23, 2003
2003 The Safari Internet browser is released June 30, 2003.
2003The Mozilla Foundation is officially formed on July 15, 2003.
2003The Internet VoIP service Skype goes public August 29, 2003.
2003Valve introduces Steam September 12, 2003.
2003Intel announces the new BTX form factor.
2003Apple adds iTunes support for Microsoft Windows computers October 17, 2003
2003On October 24, 2003 the Sober computer worm is first discovered, a computer worm written in Visual Basic and distributed through e-mail.
2003Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.3 code named Panther October 25, 2003.
2003Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD) standard is announced on November 18, 2003 as a planned replacement for DVD.
2003Eugene Kleine../people/eugene_kleiner.htmr passes away November 20, 2003.
2003President George W. Bush signs CAN-SPAM into law December 16, 2003, establishing the first United States' standards for sending commercial e-mail.
2003Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003 is released on December 18, 2003.
2003 Google releases Google Print in December 2003, which later becomes Google Book Search.
2004 MySpace official site is launched January 2004.
2004 Google jumps into the Social Networking with the release of Orkut in January 2004.
2004 The Mydoom computer virus with 250,000 infected computer begin to dos attack the SCO site February 1, 2004.
2004 In February 2004 Google is now indexing six billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images.
2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Thefacebook February 4, 2004, which later becomes Facebook
2004 The photo sharing site Flickr is launched in March of 2004.
2004Comcast purchases TechTV March 25, 2004 to form G4TechTV.
2004Google announces Gmail on April 1, 2004. Many people take it as an April Fools joke.
2004PC Maker Gateway closes all its retail stores April 2, 2004.
2004Lindows changes it's name to Linspire April 14, 2004.
2004Kelkea purchases the assets of MAPS.
2004 The Cabir aka SymbOS/Cabir virus and fist known cell phone virus is discovered June 14, 2004 and is capable of spreading to other Symbian phones over Bluetooth.
2004The first five reported killed in South Waziristan by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) June 18, 2004.
2004Bob Bemer passes away June 22, 2004 at the age of 84.
2004Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.4 code named Tiger at the WWDC on June 28, 2004.
2004Apple introduces AirPlay.
2004Intel starts the development of the BTX form factor.
2004COPPA goes into effect July 1, 2004.
2004Google acquires Picasa.
2004Google's initial public offering (IPO) of 19,605,052 shares becomes available at $85 a share August 18, 2004.
2004Google now has more than 100 domains.
2004Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is released on October 12, 2004.
2004Internet site Yelp is launched on October 13, 2004.
2004Google acquires Keyhole in October 2004, which later becomes Google Earth.
2004The first release of Ubuntu is released October 20, 2004.
2004Firefox 1.0 is first introduced on November 9, 2004.
2004 Blizzard's World of Warcraft game, the most popular and successful MMORPG is released November 23, 2004.
2004 Google now indexes 8 billion web pages.
2004IBM sells its computing division to Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion on December 08, 2004.
2005 Jeffrey Parson aka T33kid is convicted January 1, 2005 for the Blaster computer worm.
2005 SBC announced it would purchase AT&T Corp. for more than $16 Billion USD January 31, 2005.
2005 Google Maps is launched February 8, 2005.
2005Lenovo completes the acquisition of IBM's Personal Computing Division.
2005YouTube is founded and comes online February 15, 2005.
2005Google acquires Urchin in March 2005, which later becomes Google Analytics.
2005Verizon introduces FiOS.
2005Yahoo announces that it will acquire the popular photo service Flickr on March 21, 2005.
2005Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is introduced March 22, 2005.
2005The first YouTube video entitled "Me at the zoo" is uploaded April 23, 2005.
2005Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is released on April 24, 2005.
2005Google introduces its Personalized Homepage in May 2005, which is now known as iGoogle.
2005 Apple announces it plans on switching its computer to the Intel processors June 6, 2005.
2005 Jack Kilby passes away June 20, 2005.
2005Microsoft announces it's next operating system, codenamed "Longhorn" will be named Windows Vista on July 23, 2005.
2005IBM 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.
2005MySpace is purchased by News Corporation for $580 Million US on July 18, 2005.
2005On September 12, 2005 eBay acquired Skype for approximately  $2.6billion.
2005The Pandora Internet Radio service is launched August 25, 2005.
2005Google hires DARPA veteran Vint Cerf September 2005 to carry on his quest for a global open Internet.
2005Google releases Google Analytics in November 2005.
2005 TeamViewer is founded.
2005Microsoft releases the Xbox 360, the second generation of their popular game console November 16, 2005.
2005Adobe completes its acquisition of Macromedia on December 3, 2005.
2005Yahoo! buys del.icio.us for $20 million December 12, 2005.
2005 Maxtor is acquired by Seagate Technology December 21, 2005.
2006The blu-ray is first announced and introduced at the 2006 CES on January 4, 2006.
2006On January 5, 2006 Intel introduces the Intel Core and Viiv.
2006Google introduces Picasa.
2006On March 2, 2006 Wikipedia volunteers create the article that passes the 1,000,000 article mark.
2006Google announces acquisition of Writely in March 2006, which becomes the basis for Google Docs.
2006Toshiba releases the first HD DVD player in Japan on March 31, 2006.
2006 Apple announces Boot Camp, which will allow users to run Windows XP on their computers April 5, 2006.
2006 Google launches Google Calendar in April 2006.
2006 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E6320 (4M Cache, 1.86 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) April 22, 2006.
2006 Dell purchases Alienware May 8, 2006.
2006Toshiba releases the first HD DVD player in a computer computer with the introduction of the Toshiba Qosmio 35 on May 16, 2006.
2006 Twttr, now known as Twitter is officially launched July 15, 2006.
2006 Intel introduces the Intel Core 2 Duo processors with the Core 2 Duo Processor E6300 (2M Cache, 1.86 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) July 27, 2006.
2006The Intel Core 2 Extreme is first released on July 29, 2006.
2006On August 6, 2006 MySpace announces its 106 millionth account was created.
2006 Amazon.com opens AWS.
2006Skype announced that it had over 100 million registered users.
2006The Microsoft XNA tool set is released August 30, 2006.
2006HP announces its plans to purchase the PC maker VoodooPC September 28, 2006.
2006The GIF standard and pictures becomes officially free on October 1, 2006.
2006Google announces plans to purchase YouTube for 1.65 Billion on October 9, 2006.
2006Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is introduced October 18, 2006.
2006Google launches its Custom Search Engine service October 23, 2006.
2006U.S. President George W. Bush signs the USA Patriot Act into law October 26, 2006, giving law enforcement reduced restrictions on searching telephone, e-mail, and other forms of communication and records.
2006Google acquires JotSpot October 31, 2006, which later becomes Google Sites.
2006Sony releases the PlayStation 3 November 11, 2006.
2006On November 14, 2006 Microsoft released its portable Zune media player.
2006Nintendo releases the Wii November 19, 2006.
2006Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows Vista to corporations on November 30, 2006.
2006TIME magazine names "You" as the person of the year December 13, 2006, with the continued growth and success of community driven websites and content.
2006Google introduces Patent search December 13, 2006, which searches over 7 million patents.
2007Apple announces in January 1, 2007 that it will drop computer from its name as it becomes a company who deals with more than computers.
2007Apple introduces the iPhone to the public at the January 9, 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo.
2007 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4300 (2M Cache, 1.80 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) January 21, 2007.
2007 Dropbox is founded.
2007Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 to the general public January 30, 2007.
2007 Estonia becomes the first country to conduct an election over the Internet March 4, 2007
2007 Apple announces it will begin selling DRM-Free songs April 2, 2007.
2007 Google announces it will be purchasing DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash.
2007 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4400 (2M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) April 22, 2007.
2007 Google releases Google Trends on May 22, 2007.
2007 Google releases Google Street View May 25, 2007 that allows visitors of Google Maps to view of an area looks like
2007 Data Robotics introduces the Drobo in June.
2007 DDR3 is introduced.
2007Apple releases the Apple iPhone to the public June 29, 2007.
2007 The Apple iPhone Jailbreaking method is introduced to the public on July 10, 2007.
2007 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4500 (2M Cache, 2.20 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) July 22, 2007.
2007 The Internet domain name business.com is sold on July 26, 2007 to R.H. Donnelley for $345 Million USD.
2007 David Morse passes away November 2, 2007.
2007 Google releases Android November 5, 2007.
2007 The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is introduced to the public November 16, 2007.
2007Amazon.com releases the first Kindle in the United States November 19, 2007.
2007 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4600 (2M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) October 21, 2007.
2007 Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.5 code named Leopard October 26, 2007.
2007 Steve Jobs is inducted into the California Hall of Fame on December 5, 2007.
2008Acer officially acquires Packard Bell January 31, 2008.
2008The HD player war comes to an end when HD DVD calls it quit, making Blu-ray the victor on February 19, 2008.
2008Microsoft release the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) program February 27, 2008.
2008 AOL ends support for the Netscape Internet browser March 1, 2008.
2008 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4700 (2M Cache, 2.60 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) March 2, 2008.
2008 The Hulu website is released to the Public March 12, 2008.
2008 Intel releases the the Core 2 Duo E7200 (3M Cache, 2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) on April 20, 2008.
2008 Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.6 code named Snow Leopard and MobileMe at the WWDC on June 9, 2008.
2008 XM and Sirius complete their merger.
2008 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E7300 (3M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) August 10, 2008.
2008 Apple introduces its latest line of Apple iMac computers on August 28, 2008.
2008 Google releases the beta version of Chrome September 2, 2008.
2008 Leonard Kleinrock is awarded the National Medal of Science on September 29, 2008.
2008 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E7400 (3M Cache, 2.80 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) October 19, 2008.
2008 After completing their merger XM and Sirius begin broadcasting both services as one November 12, 2008.
2008 Google releases the first public version of Chrome December 11, 2008.
2009 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E7500 (3M Cache, 2.93 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) January 18, 2009
2009 Google voice, based off GrandCentral is launched March 11, 2009.
2009 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is introduced March 19, 2009.
2009 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.
2009 Google announces plans to acquire reCAPATCHA.
2009 Facebook overtakes MySpace in Internet traffic.
2009 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E7600 (3M Cache, 3.06 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) May 31, 2009
2009 Microsoft launches the Bing search engine June 3, 2009.
2009 CompuServe shuts down July 1, 2009.
2009 Google announces the Google Chrome OS July 7, 2009.
2009 After more than five years in beta, Gmail finally gets out of beta July 7, 2009.
2009 On July 29, 2009 Yahoo! and Microsoft announced a 10-year search deal where the Yahoo! search would be replaced by Bing.
2009 Microsoft releases Virtual PC September 19, 2009.
2009 Microsoft releases MSE on September 30, 2009.
2009 Microsoft releases Windows 7 October 22, 2009.
2009 Steve Jobs is named CEO of the decade by Fortune Magazine November 5, 2009.
2009 Palm introduces WebOS.
2009 The first Barnes & Noble Nook is released November 30, 2009.
2009 Rocket Software acquires Folio and NXT from Microsoft December 2.
2010 Apple introduces the iPad on January 27, 2010.
2010 Google Buzz is released February 9, 2010.
2010 Apple announces over 10 billion tracks have been downloaded from iTunes.
2010 Henry Edward Roberts passes away at the age of 68 April 1, 2010.
2010 Hewlett Packard purchased the Palm company, and the rights to WebOS, in April 2010.
2010 Stuxnet worm is first discovered.
2010 Apple introduces the iPhone 4 on June 24, 2010.
2010 Woot.com announces it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Amazon.com June 30, 2010.
2010 Amazon releases a press release July 19, 2010 mentioning it is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books.
2010 The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice September 28, 2010.
2010 Microsoft announces plans to release Windows Phone 7 October 11, 2010.
2010 First all-robotic surgery performed at Montreal General Hospital October 13, 2010.
2010 OpenStack is established.
2010 MachinimaSports becomes the 1 billionth subscriber on YouTube October 28, 2010.
2010 United States Cyber Command achieves full operational capability November 5, 2010.
2010 Planet Calypso a virtual planet in the game Entropia becomes the most valuable virtual item selling for $635,000.00 USD November 12, 2010.
2011 Intel Sandy Bridge processor is released on January 9, 2011.
2011 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.
2011 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9 March 14, 2011.
2011 Microsoft announces plans on May 10, 2011 to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion in cash.
2011 Microsoft introduces Office 365 June 28, 2011.
2011 On June 29, 2011 Newscorp sells MySpace to Specific Media L.L.C for $35 million, around $473 Million less than it initially paid for it.
2011

On August 18, 2011 Hewlett Packard announces an interest in selling its Personal Systems Group, including WebOS.

2011 Steve Jobs resigns as Apple's CEO due to health reasons on August 24, 2011.
2011 Steve Jobs passes away at the age of 56 on October 5, 2011.
2011 Dennis Ritchie passes away at the age of 70 on October 12, 2011.

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