History of Computer after 2000

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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 Linus Torvalds releases version 2.4 of the Linux Kernel source code on January 4th. 2001 Wikipedia is founded on January 15, 2001 2001 Google acquires Deaj.com's Usenet Service February 13, 2001, which later becomes Google groups. 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 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 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 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 in 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, MacAfee 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 Clippywith 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. 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 Microsoft releases the original Xbox game console November 15, 2001. 2001 Dean Kamen unveils the Segway December 3, 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 Jan de Wit aka OnTheFly is convicted May 1, 2002 for the Anna Kournikova virus. 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. 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 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 Microsoft releases DirectX 9, December 19, 2002. 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 disk drive operation for $2.05 billion. 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 Google acquires Blogger February 17, 2003. 2003 PCMCIA announces the development of a new standard codenamedNEWCARD on February 19, 2003. 2003 Supreme court rules that sex offenders information and pictures can beposted online on March 3, 2003. 2003 Intel Pentium M is introduced in March. 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 Apple opens the iTunes store April 28, 2003. 2003 The first computer is infected with the Spybot worm on April 16, 2003. 2003 The first D Conference is held in May. 2003 Internet site LinkedIn launches May 5, 2003. 2003 The game Second Life is released June 23, 2003. 2003 The Mozilla Foundation is officially formed on July 15, 2003. 2003 The Internet VoIP service Skype goes public August 29, 2003. 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 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 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003 is released on December 18, 2003. 2004 MySpace official site is launched January 2004. 2004 The Mydoom computer virus with 250,000 infected computer begin to dos attack the SCO site February 1, 2004. 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Thefacebook February 4, 2004, which later becomes Facebook 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 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 Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.4 code named Tiger at the WWDC on June 28, 2004. 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) becomes available at $85 a share August 19, 2004. 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 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 successfulMMORPG is released November 23, 2004. 2004 IBM 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. 2005 Lenovo completes the acquisition of IBM's Personal Computing Division. 2005 YouTube is founded and comes online February 15, 2005. 2005 Yahoo announces that it will acquire the popular photo service Flickr on March 21, 2005. 2005 The first YouTube video entitled "Me at the zoo" is uploaded April 23, 2005. 2005 Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is released on April 24, 2005. 2005 Apple announces it plans on switching its computer to the Intel processors June 6, 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 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 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 Maxtor is acquired by Seagate Technology December 21, 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 Intel Core and Viiv. 2006 On March 2, 2006 Wikipedia volunteers create the article that passes the 1,000,000 article mark. 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 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E6320 (4M Cache, 1.86 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) April 22, 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 Twttr, now known as Twitter is officially launched July 15, 2006. 2006 Intel introduces the Intel Core 2 Duo processors with the Core 2 DuoProcessor 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4400 (2M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) April 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 Apple 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 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 Google releases Android November 5, 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. 2008 The HD player war comes to an end when HD DVD calls it quit, makingBlu-ray the victor on February 19, 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 8, 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 andMobileMe 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 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 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 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. 2009 Rocket Software acquires Folio and NXT from Microsoft December 2. 2010 Apple introduces the iPad on January 27, 2010. 2010 Apple introduces the iPhone 4 on June 24, 2010. 2010 Microsoft announces its intention to release ten Windows Phone 7 across 30 countries October 11, 2010 in the next month. 2010 First all-robotic surgery performed at Montreal General Hospital October 13, 2010. 2010 MachinimaSports becomes the 1 billionth subscriber on YouTube October 28, 2010. 2010 United States Cyber Command achieves full operational capability November 5, 2010.