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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 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.
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 ...
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.
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.
2000: America Online merges with Time Warner. While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate merger in history at the time. While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate ...
Primus Technology; Radius – made graphics solutions for Apple, out of business mid-1990s; Raycer – acquired by Apple Computer; Real3D – acquired by Intel; Rendition – acquired by Micron Technology; S3 – merged with Diamond Multimedia, then sold off its core graphics division to VIA Technologies, later sold off to HTC