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2011

Watson, an IBM supercomputer, beat the two best human Jeopardy players in a three-day event with a score greater than the two human players combined -...

2010

Amazon issued a press release mentioning that ebook sales overtook paper book sales - Apple announced that over 10 billion tracks had been downloaded...

2009

Facebook overtook MySpace in Internet traffic - Microsoft launched Bing to compete with Google and Yahoo! - Microsoft released Windows 7 and Virtual...

2008

“Apps” became part of the lexicon with the development of applications for smartphone operating systems - Google released the Chrome browser - Blu-ray...

2007

Apple introduced the iPhone - Microsoft released Windows Vista and Office 2007 - The Internet domain system was sold to R.H. Donnelley for $345...

2006

The blu-ray was first announced and introduced at the 2006 CES - 30,000 IT Professionals received Security+ Certification - Twttr, now known as...

2005

Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 - A working prototype of a $100 laptop was presented at the U.N. with the goal of placing...

2004

Notebook PCs outsold TVs for the first time - The MyDoom computer worm caused $22.6 billion in damages in only 72 hours - IBM sold its computer...

2003

Google claimed a searchable database of 3.6 billion web pages - Microsoft released Windows Server 2003 - Apple Computer opened the iTunes store,...

2002

More than half of all Americans were using the Internet - Nine out of 10 American school children had access to computers at school - Approximately 1...

2001

Microsoft released Windows XP - The PC turned 20 and worldwide PC sales reached 835 million - Apple Computer released the iPod

2000

Microsoft launched Windows 2000 - Intel and AMD released 1 GHz chips - Bill Gates relinquished his title as CEO to Microsoft President Steve Ballmer -...

1999

The number of Internet hosts was nearing 20 million - Intel released the Pentium III processor - The Victoria's Secret fashion show was the first...

1998

Microsoft released Windows 98 - Internet stocks started skyrocketing - Internet users in the U.S. reached 100 million

1997

The number of Internet hosts was nearing 20 million - Intel released the Pentium II processor - IBM’s Deep Blue became the first computer to beat a...

1996

ENIAC turned 50 - Microsoft released the first versions of Internet Explorer - The number of host computers on the Internet approached 10 million in...

1995

Sun released JAVA, forever changing how information online can be retrieved, displayed and used - Microsoft released Windows 95, selling more than 1...

1994

Netscape and Yahoo! were founded - Iomega introduced the Zip drive and disks capable of holding 100 MB - Cisco Systems, Inc. surpassed $1 billion in...

1993

Intel introduced the Pentium chip - Microsoft launched Windows NT 3.1 - Cisco introduced the high-end Cisco 7000 router

1992

NEC introduced the first double-speed CD-ROM drive - The term “surfing the Internet” was coined by author Jean Armour Polly - The number of host...

1991

The World Wide Web was launched - Linux was born - Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota

1990

The “Web” was born. The World Wide Web was informally released using Hyper Text Markup Language - Microsoft shipped Windows 3.0 - America Online (AOL)...

1989

Tim Berners-Lee developed the language and protocol that led to the creation of the World Wide Web - Computer usage reached 100 million worldwide -...

1988

MS-DOS installation base reached nearly 30 million; version 4.0 released - Approximately 45 million PCs were in use across the U.S. alone - Hewlett...

1987

Microsoft listed for $21 a share on the NYSE - WordPerfect shipped version 4.2 - Compaq beat IBM in releasing the first 386-based PC

1986

Microsoft shares hit $100 - The number of Internet hosts exceeded 10,000 - Microsoft shipped Bookshelf, the first CD-ROM application

1985

C++ became the dominant object-oriented computer language - Microsoft Windows version 1.0 was released - Intel introduced the 386 DX processor -...

1984

The term “Cyber Space” was introduced in William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer - Cisco Systems, Inc. and Dell Computer Corp. were founded - The Domain...

1983

Sony announced the 3.5” floppy disk, capable of holding 1.5 MB, and drive - Microsoft formally announced Windows and Word - AT&T Bell Labs designed...

1982

TThe term “Internet” was first used - Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect 1.0 were introduced - Time Magazine named the computer “Man of the year”

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