-
-
The Altair 8800 developed by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1975 was the first personal home computer.
-
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form the Apple Computer Company, on April Fool's Day.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Microsoft releases Windows 3.0 a completely new version of Microsoft Windows. The version will sell more than 3 million copies in one year.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
It sells more than 1 million copies within the first two months of its release
-
-
An increase of 200% in power of the processor, as is announced by the manufacturers can not be realized. Tests showed that even a 20% increase is not possible with the standard (386/486 or 64020/30/40) available software. The Pentium is plagued with problems. For example a cooling is mandatory because of problems with over heating. The pentium is the first cpu for micro computers with a kind of parallel processing.
-
PDAs are pen-based hand-held computers.
-
Founded by Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" before being renamed. Yahoo originally resided on two machines, Akebono and Konishiki, both named after famous Sumo wrestlers. Yahoo would quickly expand to become one of the Internet’s most popular search engines.
-
Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the European Commission. It comprised various companies that were willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web. Berners-Lee made the Web available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The W3C decided that their standards must be based on royalty-free technolo
-
In August 1995, Microsoft releases Windows 95, which includes key technologies for connecting to the Internet, such as built-in support for dial-up networking and TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol).
-
-
EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
-
Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos
-
Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia.
-
-
Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998
-
Apple Power Book G3 was released.The G3 Series was available with a variety of built-to-order options including a 233, 250, or 292 Mhz PPC750 processor and either a 12" passive-matrix screen, a 13.3" TFT Active Matrix screen, or an incredible 14.1" TFT Active Matrix Screen.1998 Released on June 25, 1998, Windows 98 is the first version of Windows designed specifically for consumers. PCs are common at work and home, and Internet cafes where you can get online are popping up. Windows 98 is describ
-
-
-
-
-
big competitor of IE other than Netscape
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-