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The First PC ,IBM, had a disk operating system
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The osborne 1 was the real first laptop. it weighed 24 pounds and cost around 1100$. it was never sucessful but it was a step in making PC's smaller and moveable.
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original creator of PostScript as well as several popular software applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Pagemill, Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat
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First PC magazines go to news stands everywhere
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The beginning of the greatest adventure computer gaming series is released by Sierra. Kings Quest 1: Quest for the crown is released to the public
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IBM introduces the Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) video card with higher resolution, more colors, and a quicker response then previous video cards
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The first virus was made in Chauburji, Lahore, Pakistan, 1986
Two programmers named Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, .replace the executable code in the boot sector of a floppy disk with their own code designed to infect each 360kb floppy accessed on any drive. -
Microsoft is listed on the New York Stock Exchange selling shares to the public at $21 each, making Bill Gates one of the worlds youngest billionaires.
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Chipsets begin to be found on computer motherboards.
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Microsoft introduces Microsoft Works.
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Creative Labs introduces the SoundBlaster, a sound card for the PC that contains an 11-voice FM synthesizer with text-to-speech, digitized voice input / output, a MIDI port, a joystick port and bundled software.
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Intel releases the 486DX processor, with more than 1 million transistors and multitasking capabilities.
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In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee, working with Robert Cailliau at CERN create hypertext' system, which is the first start of the Internet as we know it today.
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Microsoft releases Windows 3.0 a completely new version of Microsoft Windows. it sells more than 3 million copies in one year.
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Apple introduces System 7 operating system
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The World Wide Web is launched to the public. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland develops the Web as a research tool.
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The Sega Genesis game "Zero Wing" is introduced. "All your base are belong to us"
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Intel releases the 486DX2 chip March 2 with a clock doubling ability that generates higher operating speeds.
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Internet Society formed.
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President Bill Clinton puts the United States White House online with a World Wide Web page and E-mail address for the President, Vice President and first lady
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Intel releases the Pentium Processor, a 60Mhz, 2.2million transistors processor for $878.00
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John Scully is named president of Apple Computers
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The internet grows massively, more servers more sites blogs forums!
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The PC game DOOM by Id Software , Today, DOOM is thought of as a turning point for first person shooters and for computer games in general. without DOOM who knows what first person shooters would be like today!
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YAHOO is created by David Filo and Jerry Yang. Today, Yahoo! is one of the most well known and most visited pages on the Internet.
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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 1.0 for web searchs and other business
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Intel releases the new motherboard form factor ATX.. ATX is the size of the motherboard now a days there are smaller motherboards then ATX
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Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as a world wide search engine for the internet.
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Intel releases the Celeron processor which is similar to the Pentium II but lacks L2 cache as well as the Pentium II shell and uses a new Covington core which is running at 66Mhz system bus
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The Intel Pentium III 500 MHz which utilized the Socket 370 socket in addition to the Slot1 configuration.
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Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for Itanium systems is released.
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Microsoft Windows XP home and professional editions are released to the public as new operating systems , OS,
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Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E6320 (4M Cache, 1.86 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) Fastest processor on the market at the time
