Year |
Event |
| 2000 |
Many experts, governments and businesses
feared that January 1st 2000 could cause serious issues with the
date stamp on computers. The belief was that because many old
computers relied off of the last two digits of a year such as 99
for 1999, when the year 2000 came 2000 would set the computers to
00 causing the computer to think it was 1900. Called the Year 2000
bug many individuals feared for the worst however because of preparation
Year 2000 only caused a few glitches, however no catastrophes. |
| 2000 |
Microsoft
Bill Gates relinquishes his title as CEO to MS President
Steve Ballmer on January 13, 2000. |
| 2000 |
CNR
is introduced by Intel February
07, 2000 |
| 2000 |
Microsoft
Windows 2000 is released February of
2000. |
| 2000 |
U.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. |
|
2000 |
On March 10, 2000 NASDAQ hits its
record high and marks the turning point of the dot-com boom. |
| 2000 |
The Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act becomes effective April 21,
2000. |
| 2000 |
ATI
introduces their Radeon
product line on April 24, 2000. |
| 2000 |
On 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. |
| 2000 |
Jack
Kilby is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| 2000 |
ATA-5
is approved by ANSI. |
| 2000 |
Microsoft
releases Windows ME June 19, 2000. |
| 2000 |
Microsoft
introduces C# to the public
in June 2000. |
| 2000 |
Microsoft
release DirectX 8, November 9,
2000. |
| 2001 |
January 1, 2001 - Microsoft announces
Windows 95 is now a legacy item and will no longer be sold or
shipped to any more customers. |
| 2001 |
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. |
| 2001 |
Bill Gates unveils the Xbox on January
7th 2001. |
|
2001 |
Napster reaches over 26
million users February 2001. |
| 2001 |
The
man who practically invented the Silicon Valley success story,
Hewlett-Packard Co. co-founder William Hewlett, dies at
his home, he was 87. |
|
2001 |
Chip-making giant
Intel Corp. has agreed to acquire
Xircom Inc., a maker of mobile computing gear, for about $748
million. |
| 2001 |
Claude 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 |
March 08, AOL
membership surpasses 28 Million. |
|
2001 |
The
CDDB is officially renamed to Gracenote. |
| 2001 |
Apple
introduces Mac OS X 10.0 code named Cheetah. |
| 2001 |
March 09, MacAfee
releases first handheld virus protection software. |
| 2001 |
March 31,
After 21 years of selling hard drives, Quantum on Friday
formally left the business to turn its full attention to
higher-level storage products and services. |
| 2001 |
April 20, Dell
computers becomes the largest PC maker. |
| 2001 |
June 5, 2001,
Nevada becomes the first U.S. state to vote to legalize online
gambling. |
| 2001 |
Airlines begin
to implement methods of gaining Internet access while flying. |
| 2001 |
Apple
introduces Mac OS X 10.1 code named Puma. |
| 2001 |
USB
2.0 is introduced. |
| 2001 |
Microsoft
announces April 11, 2001 that it will no longer include Clippy
with future releases of Microsoft Office. |
| 2001 |
July 20, 2001 -
PC shipments worst since 1986, as only Dell grows. |
| 2001 |
Egghead files for Bankruptcy
protection on August
18, 2001. |
|
2001 |
SATA
1.0 is introduced in August 2001. |
|
2001 |
AST
Computers goes out of business and stops selling computers. |
| 2001 |
Hewlett
Packard announces plans to buy Compaq
on September sixth. |
|
2001 |
Apple introduces the
iPod. |
| 2001 |
Microsoft
Windows XP home and professional
editions are released October 25, 2001. |
|
2001 |
Microsoft Windows
XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2002) for Itanium systems is
released. |
| 2001 |
Microsoft
release DirectX 9, November 8,
2001. |
| 2002 |
Excite@Home,
one of the largest ISP's files for bankruptcy and closes its doors
March, 02, 2002. |
| 2002 |
Approximately 1 billion PCs have been shipped
worldwide since the mid-'70s, according to a study released by consulting firm
Gartner. |
| 2002 |
PayPal
is acquired by eBay. |
|
2002 |
Napster files for a
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on June 3, 2002. |
| 2002 |
WorldCom the Number 2 long-distance
telephone and data service company files for bankruptcy June 21,
2002. |
| 2002 |
PCI
Express is approved as standard. |
| 2002 |
Edsger
Dijkstra passes away August 6, 2002. |
| 2002 |
Apple
introduces Mac OS X 10.2 code named Jaguar. |
| 2002 |
Cartoon turtle named "Dewie"
introduced to help promote Internet safety and security. |
| 2002 |
Microsoft
release DirectX 9, December 19,
2002. |
| 2002 |
Roxio
acquires the Napster name
and logo in a bankruptcy auction on November 25, 2002. |
|
2003 |
PCMCIA announces the development of a new standard codenamed
NEWCARD on February 19,
2003. |
|
2003 |
Supreme court rules that sex
offenders information and pictures can be
posted online on March 3,
2003. |
|
2003 |
Microsoft Windows
XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2003) for Itanium 2 systems is
released on March 28, 2003. |
| 2003 |
Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 is released March 28, 2003. |
|
2003 |
The first computer is infected with
the spybot worm on April
16, 2003. |
| 2003 |
Mozilla
Foundation is founded in July 2003. |
|
2003 |
MySpace is founded. |
|
2003 |
Intel
announces the new BTX
form factor. |
|
2003 |
Enhanced Versatile Disc
(EVD) standard is announced on November 18, 2003 as a planned
replacement for DVD. |
| 2003 |
Eugene Kleiner passes away November
20, 2003. |
| 2003 |
Apple
introduces Mac OS X 10.3 code named Panther October 25, 2003. |
|
2003 |
Microsoft Windows
XP Media Center Edition 2003 is released on December 18,
2003. |
| 2004 |
Comcast purchases TechTV
March 25, 2004 to form G4TechTV. |
| 2004 |
Google
announces Gmail on April 1,
2004. |
| 2004 |
Lindows
changes it's name to Linspire
April 14, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Kelkea
purchases the assets of MAPS. |
|
2004 |
Intel
starts the development of the BTX
form factor. |
|
2004 |
Microsoft Windows
XP Media Center Edition 2005 is released on October 12,
2004. |
| 2004 |
IBM sells
its computing
division to Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion on December 08, 2004 |
| 2005 |
Lenovo
completes the acquisition of IBM's
Personal Computing Division. |
|
2005 |
YouTube is founded. |
|
2005 |
Yahoo
announces that it will acquire the popular photo service
Flickr on March 21, 2005. |
|
2005 |
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition is released on April 24, 2005. |
|
2005 |
Microsoft
announces it's next operating system, codenamed
"Longhorn" will be named Windows Vista on July 23,
2005. |
| 2005 |
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. |
|
2005 |
MySpace is purchased by News Corporation for $580 Million
US. |
| 2005 |
On September 12, 2005 eBay
acquired Skype for approximately
$2.6billion. |
|
2005 |
Adobe
completes its acquisition of
Macromedia on December 3, 2005. |
|
2006 |
The blu-ray
is first announced and introduced at the 2006
CES on January 4,
2006. |
|
2006 |
On January 5, 2006
Intel introduces the
Core Duo. |
|
2006 |
Toshiba releases the first HD DVD player in Japan on March
31, 2006. |
|
2006 |
Toshiba releases the first HD DVD player in a computer
computer with the introduction of the Toshiba Qosmio 35 on May
16, 2006. |
|
2006 |
John Hui, the former owner of
eMachines purchases
Packard Bell. |
|
2006 |
On July 27, 2006
Intel introduces the
Core 2 Duo processors. |
|
2006 |
The
Intel Core 2 Extreme is
first released on July 29, 2006. |
|
2006 |
Skype
announced that it had over 100 million registered users. |
|
2006 |
The
GIF standard and pictures becomes officially free on October
1, 2006. |
|
2006 |
Google announces plans to purchase
YouTube for 1.65 Billion on
October 9, 2006. |
|
2006 |
On November 14, 2006 Microsoft
released its portable Zune
media player. |
|
2006 |
Microsoft releases
Microsoft Windows Vista to
corporations on November 30, 2006. |
|
2007 |
Apple announces in January 1, 2007
that it will drop computer from its name as it becomes a company
who deals with more than computers. |
|
2007 |
Apple introduces the
iPhone to the public at the
January Macworld Conference & Expo. |
|
2007 |
Microsoft releases
Microsoft Windows Vista and
Office 2007 to the general public January 30, 2007. |
|
2007 |
Apple
releases the Apple
iPhone to the public June
29, 2007. |
