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The Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K), the computer glitch disaster expected to happen on January 1, 2000. The development of web browsers such as Netscape Navigator (originally known as Mosaic) in 1993 and Internet Explorer in 1995 makes surfing the World Wide Web easier and more user friendly.
Severe Tire Damage made the first live music performance on the Internet, using MBone technology. July 27, 1993 Microsoft released the Windows NT 3.1 operating system that supported 32-bit programs. December 10, 1993 Doom was released by id Software.
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 ...
170 kya – 90 kya: Clothing, among anatomically modern humans in Africa. Genetic evidence from body lice suggests a range of dates centering over 100 thousand years ago. [ 28 ] The first bone scrapers appropriate for scraping hides to make supple leather were found in Morocco dating to 90–120,000 years ago.
A timeline of United States inventions (after 1991) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Contemporary era to the present day, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States.
Date Event January 4 Linux kernel version 2.4.0 released. February 1 Foundation of the newco Loquendo as a spin-off of the CSELT's voice technology group.: February The Agile Manifesto, which crystallised and named a growing trend towards more "agile" processes in software development, was released.
Technological advancements like the internet, personal computers, and the World Wide Web were popular in the 1990s. The Y2K bug in the late 1990s affected popular culture. Y2K was a computer bug occurring when computers switched from the years 1999 to 2000, some computers reset to 1900.
Timeline of computing presents events in the history of computing organized by year and grouped into six topic areas: predictions and concepts, first use and inventions, hardware systems and processors, operating systems, programming languages, and new application areas.