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IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer to beat a reigning World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov, in a full chess match. The computer had played him before, losing 5/6 games in February 1996. June 2 Intel released Pentium MMX, 233 MHz version. August 6 After 18 months of losses Apple Computer was in serious financial trouble. Microsoft ...
Spun off computer division as Canon Computer Systems: Celerity Computing — United States: 1983: 1988: Acquired by Floating Point Systems: Centurion Computer Corporation — United States: 1974: 1985: Exited the computer business: Chicony Electronics — Taiwan: 1988: 2000: Left the computer business; still active in peripheral business ...
While Santana's "Smooth" featuring Rob Thomas topped the chart in the first two weeks of 2000, it was not counted as a number-one single of the 2000s decade by Billboard because it had topped the chart in October 1999, and thus was counted as a number-one single of the 1990s decade only. [4]
Her "The Way You Love Me" also made the list, at 41. Latin rock band Santana had a strong showing, taking positions two and three with "Smooth" and "Maria Maria" from the Supernatural album. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 2000. [1]
The Fugees made some of the decade's most powerful and groundbreaking music; this 1996 hit comes from Lauryn Hill's debut as a solo artist. Peter Pakvis - Getty Images "This Kiss" by Faith Hill (1998)
As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.
Samples and interpolations of old songs in hip hop songs were common in the 1990s as a way to celebrate the end of the 2nd millennium and the 20th century by going retro. Many of the following songs include samples from older songs: " U Can't Touch This " by MC Hammer ; " Jump Around " by House of Pain ; " Mo Money Mo Problems " and " Big Poppa ...
Apple Computer introduces the MacBook Pro, their first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer, as well as an Intel-based iMac. June 19 Researchers create experimental processor that operates at higher than 500 GHz when cryogenically frozen. [7] [8] July 27 Intel releases the Core 2 processor. September 26