Year | Event |
2000 | Computers 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. |
2000 | A 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. |
2000 | AOL acquires Time Warner and becomes AOL Time Warner |
2000 | Microsoft Bill Gates relinquishes his title as CEO to Microsoft President Steve Ballmer on January 13, 2000. |
2000 | The domain twitter.com comes online January 21, 2000. |
2000 | EA releases The Sims, the best-selling PC game in history February 04, 2000. |
2000 | CNR is introduced by Intel February 07, 2000. |
2000 | Microsoft Windows 2000 was released February 17, 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 | VeriSign agrees to acquire Network Solutions for $21 billion on March 7, 2000. |
2000 | On March 10, 2000 NASDAQ hits its record high and marks the turning point of the dot-com boom. |
2000 | Perl 5.6 is released March 22, 2000. |
2000 | Microsoft Pocket PC 2000 is introduced April 19, 2000. |
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 | Young 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. |
2000 | Donald Davies passes away May 28, 2000 (age 76) |
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 | Google announces it has indexed over one billion pages making it the Internet’s largest search engine. |
2000 | Microsoft releases Windows ME June 19, 2000. |
2000 | Microsoft introduces C# to the public in June 2000. |
2000 | For the first time more than half of the households in America have Internet access on August 17, 2000 according to Nielsen. |
2000 | AT&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. |
2000 | Bill 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. |
2000 | Microsoft release DirectX 8, November 9, 2000. |
2000 | The site egghead.com announces December 22, 2000 its site was hacked and that around 3.5 million customers credit cards were exposed. |
2001 | Microsoft announces on January 1, 2001 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 | Linus Torvalds releases version 2.4 of the Linux Kernel source code on January 4th. |
2001 | William Hewlett passes away January 12, 2001 (age 88) |
2001 | The domain wikipedia.org comes online January 13, 2001. |
2001 | Wikipedia is founded on January 15, 2001. |
2001 | Herbert Simon passes away February 9, 2001 (age 85) |
2001 | Google acquires its first public acquisition: Deaj.com’s Usenet Service on February 13, 2001, which later becomes Google groups. |
2001 | Claude Elwood Shannon passes away on February 24, 2001 (age 85) |
2001 | UsRobotics introduces the V.92 modem standard February 27, 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 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 | Electronic Arts purchases Pogo.com in March 2001. |
2001 | On March 08, 2001 AOL membership surpasses 28 Million. |
2001 | The Mir Russian Space station reenters Earth’s atmosphere March 23, 2001 and breaks up after 15-years in space. |
2001 | The 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 | Nathan Rochester passes away June 8, 2001 (age 82) |
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. |
2001 | Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 in August 27, 2001. |
2001 | Compaq introduces the Compaq Presario line of computers August 27, 2001. |
2001 | The CDDB is officially renamed to Gracenote. |
2001 | Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.0 code named Cheetah and becomes available March 24, 2001. |
2001 | March 09, McAfee releases first handheld virus protection software. |
2001 | After 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. |
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 and becomes available on September 25, 2001. |
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 6, 2001. |
2001 | Apple introduces the iPod and it goes on sell October 23, 2001. |
2001 | On 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. |
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 | IBM starts the Eclipse project. |
2001 | The domain Stumbleupon.com comes online November 4, 2001. |
2001 | Microsoft releases the original Xbox game console November 15, 2001. |
2001 | Dean Kamen unveils the Segway December 3, 2001. |
2001 | The “Goner” virus is first discovered December 4, 2001 and ends up costing an estimated eighty-million dollars in damage. |
2001 | Rhapsody is released in December of 2001. |
2001 | In December 2001 the Google search engine is now indexing three billion web documents. |
2002 | In February 2002 Google releases its first hardware device called the Google Search Appliance. |
2002 | Excite@Home, one of the largest ISP’s files for bankruptcy and closes its doors March, 02, 2002. |
2002 | Gentoo is released March 31, 2002. |
2002 | Approximately 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. |
2002 | Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is released May 16, 2002. |
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 | Perl 5.8 is released July 18, 2002. |
2002 | The first Trackback is used on Movable Type. |
2002 | Edsger Dijkstra passes away August 6, 2002 (age 72) |
2002 | Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.2 code named Jaguar and becomes available on August 23, 2002. |
2002 | Cartoon turtle named “Dewie” introduced to help promote Internet safety and security. |
2002 | Geoffrey Dummer passes away September 9, 2002 (age 93) |
2002 | The first of code that would later become Mozilla Firefox is made available September 23, 2002. |
2002 | PayPal is acquired by eBay on October 3, 2002. |
2002 | Keith Uncapher passes away October 10, 2002 (age 80) |
2002 | Iomega discontinues the Jaz drive. |
2002 | Roxio acquires the Napster name and logo in a bankruptcy auction on November 25, 2002. |
2002 | Hitachi closes deal to purchase IBM’s hard 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. |
2003 | The space shuttle Columbia explodes fifteen minutes before it is scheduled to land on February 1, 2003, resulting in the death of all seven crew members. |
2003 | Google acquires Blogger February 17, 2003. |
2003 | PCMCIA announces the development of a new standard codenamed NEWCARD on February 19, 2003. |
2003 | Roger Needham passes away March 1, 2003 (age 68) |
2003 | Supreme court rules that sex offenders information and pictures can be posted online on March 3, 2003. |
2003 | Intel Pentium M is introduced in March. |
2003 | Adam Osborne passes away March 18, 2003 (age 64) |
2003 | Puppy Linux is introduced. |
2003 | SCO 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. |
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 | Apple opens the iTunes store April 28, 2003. |
2003 | Edgar Codd passes away April 18, 2003 (age 80) |
2003 | The first D Conference is held in May. |
2003 | The H.264 standard is completed in May 2003. |
2003 | Internet site LinkedIn launches May 5, 2003. |
2003 | Yahoo! 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. |
2003 | The Mozilla Foundation is officially formed on July 15, 2003. |
2003 | The Internet VoIP service Skype goes public August 29, 2003. |
2003 | Valve introduces Steam September 12, 2003. |
2003 | Intel announces the new BTX form factor. |
2003 | Apple adds iTunes support for Microsoft Windows computers October 17, 2003 |
2003 | On October 24, 2003 the Sober computer worm is first discovered, a computer worm written in Visual Basic and distributed through e-mail. |
2003 | Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.3 code named Panther October 25, 2003. |
2003 | ImageShack comes online in November 2003. |
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 (age 80) |
2003 | President George W. Bush signs CAN-SPAM into law December 16, 2003, establishing the first United States’ standards for sending commercial e-mail. |
2003 | Microsoft 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 | WPA2 begins being used. |
2004 | The photo sharing site Flickr is launched in March of 2004. |
2004 | Comcast purchases TechTV March 25, 2004 to form G4TechTV. |
2004 | Google announces Gmail on April 1, 2004. Many people take it as an April Fools joke. |
2004 | PC Maker Gateway closes all its retail stores April 2, 2004. |
2004 | Lindows changes it’s name to Linspire April 14, 2004. |
2004 | Kelkea 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. |
2004 | The first five reported killed in South Waziristan by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) June 18, 2004. |
2004 | Bob Bemer passes away June 22, 2004 (age 84) |
2004 | Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.4 code named Tiger at the WWDC on June 28, 2004. |
2004 | Apple introduces AirPlay. |
2004 | Intel starts the development of the BTX form factor. |
2004 | COPPA goes into effect July 1, 2004. |
2004 | Google acquires Picasa. |
2004 | Google’s initial public offering (IPO) of 19,605,052 shares becomes available at $85 a share August 18, 2004. |
2004 | Google now has more than 100 domains. |
2004 | Bob Evans passes away September 2, 2004 (age 77) |
2004 | Alain Glavieux passes away September 24, 2004 (age 55) |
2004 | Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is released on October 12, 2004. |
2004 | Internet site Yelp is launched on October 13, 2004. |
2004 | Google acquires Keyhole in October 2004, which later becomes Google Earth. |
2004 | The first release of Ubuntu is released October 20, 2004. |
2004 | Firefox 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. |
2004 | IBM sells its computing division to Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion on December 08, 2004. |
2004 | David Wheeler passes away December 13, 2004 (age 77) |
2005 | Jeffrey Parson aka T33kid is convicted January 1, 2005 for the Blaster computer worm. |
2005 | SBC announced it would purchase AT&T for more than $16 Billion USD January 31, 2005. |
2005 | Google Maps is launched February 8, 2005. |
2005 | Lenovo completes the acquisition of IBM‘s Personal Computing Division. |
2005 | YouTube is founded and comes online February 15, 2005. |
2005 | Google acquires Urchin in March 2005, which later becomes Google Analytics. |
2005 | Verizon introduces FiOS. |
2005 | Yahoo announces that it will acquire the popular photo service Flickr on March 21, 2005. |
2005 | Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is introduced March 22, 2005. |
2005 | The first YouTube video entitled “Me at the zoo” is uploaded April 23, 2005 by Jawed Karim. |
2005 | Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is released on April 24, 2005. |
2005 | George Dantzig passes away May 13, 2005 (Age: 91) |
2005 | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is released May 19, 2005. |
2005 | Google 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 | Eiichi Goto passes away June 12, 2005 (age 74) |
2005 | Jack Kilby passes away June 20, 2005 (age 82) |
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 on July 18, 2005. |
2005 | On September 12, 2005 eBay acquired Skype for approximately $2.6billion. |
2005 | The Pandora Internet Radio service is launched August 25, 2005. |
2005 | Google hires DARPA veteran Vint Cerf September 2005 to carry on his quest for a global open Internet. |
2005 | Google releases Google Analytics in November 2005. |
2005 | TeamViewer is founded. |
2005 | Microsoft releases the Xbox 360, the second generation of their popular game console November 16, 2005. |
2005 | Adobe completes its acquisition of Macromedia on December 3, 2005. |
2005 | Yahoo! buys del.icio.us for $20 million December 12, 2005. |
2005 | Maxtor is acquired by Seagate Technology December 21, 2005. |
2005 | Forrest Parry passes away December 31, 2005 (Age 84) |
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 Intel Core and Viiv. |
2006 | Google introduces Picasa. |
2006 | On March 2, 2006 Wikipedia volunteers create the article that passes the 1,000,000 article mark. |
2006 | Google announces acquisition of Writely in March 2006, which becomes the basis for Google Docs. |
2006 | Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter posts the first Twitter post “Just setting up my twttr” on his account March 21, 2006. |
2006 | Toshiba 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 | Enid Mumford passes away April 7, 2006 (age 82) |
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. |
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 | Alan Kotok passes away May 26, 2006 (age 65) |
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. |
2006 | The Intel Core 2 Extreme is first released on July 29, 2006. |
2006 | On August 6, 2006 MySpace announces its 106 millionth account was created. |
2006 | Amazon.com opens AWS. |
2006 | Skype announced that it had over 100 million registered users. |
2006 | The Microsoft XNA tool set is released August 30, 2006. |
2006 | Bernard Galler passes away September 4, 2006 (age 78) |
2006 | HP announces its plans to purchase the PC maker VoodooPC September 28, 2006. |
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 | Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is introduced October 18, 2006. |
2006 | Google launches its Custom Search Engine service October 23, 2006. |
2006 | U.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. |
2006 | Google acquires JotSpot October 31, 2006, which later becomes Google Sites. |
2006 | Sony releases the PlayStation 3 November 11, 2006. |
2006 | On November 14, 2006 Microsoft released its portable Zune media player. |
2006 | Nintendo releases the Wii November 19, 2006. |
2006 | Microsoft introduces exFAT in November 2006. |
2006 | Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows Vista to corporations on November 30, 2006. |
2006 | Alan F. Shugart passes away December 12, 2006 (age 76) |
2006 | TIME magazine names “You” as the person of the year December 13, 2006, with the continued growth and success of community driven websites and content. |
2006 | Google introduces Patent search December 13, 2006, which searches over 7 million patents. |
2007 | AMD releases the DTX motherboard form factor in January 2007. |
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 9, 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo. |
2007 | Douglas Ross passes away January 21, 2007 (age 78) |
2007 | Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4300 (2M Cache, 1.80 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) January 21, 2007. |
2007 | Dropbox is founded. |
2007 | Microsoft 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 | John Backus passes away March 17, 2007 (age 83) |
2007 | Adobe introduces Adobe AIR on March 19, 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 | Theodore Maiman passes away May 5, 2007 (age 80) |
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. |
2007 | Apple releases the Apple iPhone to the public June 29, 2007. |
2007 | Donald Michie passes away July 7, 2007 (age 84). |
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 (age 64) |
2007 | Google releases Android November 5, 2007. |
2007 | Microsoft renames their SMS to SCCM in November 2007. |
2007 | The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is introduced to the public November 16, 2007. |
2007 | Amazon.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. |
2008 | Acer officially acquires Packard Bell January 31, 2008. |
2008 | The HD player war comes to an end when HD DVD calls it quit, making Blu-ray the victor on February 19, 2008. |
2008 | Microsoft 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 | Arthur C. Clark passes away March 19, 2008 (age 91) |
2008 | Intel releases the Core 2 Duo E7200 (3M Cache, 2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) on April 20, 2008. |
2008 | Arthur Walter Burks passes away May 14, 2008 (age 93) |
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 | The ATSC approves H.264 to be broadcast over television in July 2008. |
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 | The first Intel i7 is released to the public in November of 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 on 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 | The Minecraft game is released. |
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 | The analog TV signal begins to be phased out as broadcasts moved to high-definition on June 12, 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 | Amir Pnueli passes away November 2, 2009 (age 68) |
2009 | Steve Jobs is named CEO of the decade by Fortune Magazine November 5, 2009. |
2009 | Palm introduces WebOS. |
2009 | Andrew Booth passes away November 29, 2009 (age 91) |
2009 | USB 3.0 begins being released in November of 2009. |
2009 | The first Barnes & Noble Nook is released November 30, 2009. |
2009 | Alexander L’vovich Brudno passes away December 1, 2009 (age 91) |
2009 | Rocket Software acquires Folio and NXT from Microsoft December 2. |
2009 | Borje Langefors passes away December 13, 2009 (age 94) |
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 | Ed Roberts passes away April 1, 2010 (age 68). |
2010 | Hewlett Packard purchased the Palm company, and the rights to WebOS, in April 2010. |
2010 | Alexander (Sandy) Shafto Douglas passes away April 29, 2010 (age 89) |
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 | Carl Petri passes away July 2, 2010 (age 84) |
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 | Intel releases the AHCI specification in October 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. |
2010 | Microsoft first releases the Kinect for the Xbox 360 in November 4, 2010. |
2010 | Maurice Wilkes passes away November 29, 2010 (age 97) |
2010 | Mark Zuckerberg is named TIME Person of the Year 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 | Jean Bartik passes away March 23, 2011 (Age 87) |
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 | Tony Sale passes away on August 28, 2011 (age 80) |
2011 | Einar Stefferud passes away on September 22, 2011 (age 81) |
2011 | Steve Jobs passes away on October 5, 2011 (age 56) |
2011 | Dennis Ritchie passes away on October 12, 2011 (age 70) |
2011 | John McCarthy passes away October 24, 2011 (Age 84) |
2012 | Jack Tramiel passes away on April 8, 2012 (age 84) |
2012 | Google and several other companies migrate to IPv6 on June 6, 2012. |
2012 | Pinterest is made available to everyone August 10, 2012. |