| 1995 - 2007 |
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1995
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E-commerce sites Ebay
and Amazon.com open, forecasting a revolution in the way goods
are bought and sold |
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1995
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Microsoft releases the
Windows 95 operating system and sells 600,00 units in the first
month. |
Courtesy of IBM
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1997
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In a legendary match,
IBM's Deep Blue computer defeats Garry Kasparov, the world champion
chess player |
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1999
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Membership to the Internet
Service Provider AOL exceeds 20 million, signifying an explosion
of personal computer use for the Internet |
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1999
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Shawn Fanning, while
at Northeastern University, founds Napster. The easy trading of
music in MP3 format raises copyright issues |
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2000
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The Y2K crisis costs
millions to fix, yet the new millennium was ushered in with few
glitches |
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2000
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The dot-com business
model proves faulty, start-up companies fail, tech stock plummets,
and the dot-com bubble bursts |
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2000
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Judge rules that Microsoft
is a monopoly and is in violation of anti-trust laws. Microsoft
appeals. |
U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Program,
http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis
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2000
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The Human Genome Project
completes a draft of the DNA sequence for humans |
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2001
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Dell Computer Corporation
becomes the leading global maker of computer systems, targeting
both PC owners and businesses |
Courtesy of the Earth Simulator Center
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2002
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Researchers are amazed
by the Japanese supercomputer the Earth Simulator, which performs
5-times faster than the former leading supercomputer, the Asci
White |
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2002
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Microsoft releases the .NET development environment with the potential to revolutionize software development
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2004
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Microsoft releases Service Pack 2, an update to Windows XP designed to address
security and reliability concerns
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2005
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IBM sells its PC business to Chinese computer maker Lenovo
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2006
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Apple switches from IBM and Motorola PowerPC processors to chips made by
Intel
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2007
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Apple announces the iPhone, which is meant to do for the cell phone what the
iPod did for music players
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2007
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Microsoft releases Vista, the first new version of Windows in five years
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