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Intel released Pentium processor, 90 and 100 MHz versions. March 14, 1994 Linus Torvalds released version 1.0 of the Linux kernel. April 29, 1994 Commodore International declares bankruptcy. Commodore's assets were eventually sold to German PC manufacturer ESCOM in 1995. August 1994 IBM releases the IBM Simon a forerunner to the smartphone.
The compact disc, which debuted in the early 1980s but was not affordable until the early 1990s, makes the audiocassette and vinyl record less popular in most countries for listening to recorded music. DVDs become available in Japan in 1995 and the US in 1997, making video cassettes obsolete by the early 2000s.
Towards the end of the 2000s, BitTorrent became subject to a "man in the middle" attack in TCP mode – and this has led most file sharing protocols to move to UDP towards the very end of the decade. Client and tracker software in this era was in development as much as the transmission protocols, so the file trading software was not always as ...
Adobe Flash technology reached the point of being able to make video players. As a result, YouTube, a website which allows uploading and viewing videos, was created. YouTube's popularity grew explosively and it was acquired by Google. Data storage prices continued to drop, going from approximately US$7 per GB in early 2000 to US$0.07 per GB in ...
While used units start around $70, those in mint condition or with original packaging can command prices upwards of $2,000, ... especially in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the clunky Commodore ...
Martin Dougiamas trials early prototypes of Moodle at Curtin University of Technology, built during 1998 and 1999. This paper "Improving the effectiveness of tools for Internet-based education" published in January 2000 details one case study and includes screenshots. The LON-CAPA project is started at Michigan State University. [139]
Poor planning leads to a dot-com crash and many of these companies disappear in the early 2000s. But not all of them. Internet Explorer, Amazon, Yahoo!, and eBay all hit the web in '95.
Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) – quit developing 3D graphics in-house in the early 2000s and bought GPUs from other companies; later went completely out of business in 2009; its assets were bought in the resulting Chapter 11 bankruptcy by Rackable Systems, which changed its name to Silicon Graphics International