Lyons Electronic Office became one of the first practical problem solving computers
MIT began experimentation on direct keyboard input on computers
Digital Equipment Corp. introduced the PDP-8, the first commercially successful minicomputer.
Hewlett-Packard entered the general purpose computer business with its HP-2115, offering a computational power formerly found only in much larger computers
The Apollo Guidance Computer made its debut orbiting the Earth on Apollo 7. A year later, it steered Apollo 11 to the lunar surface
The Kenbak-1, the first personal computer, advertised for $750 in Scientific American
The Micral was the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computer based on a micro-processor, the Intel 8008
Tandem computers tailored its Tandem-16, the first fault-tolerant computer, for online transaction processing
Adam Osborne completed the first portable compute
Apple introduced its Lisa, The first personal computer with a graphical user interface
Apple Computer launched the Macintosh, the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphic user interface
The World Wide Web was created when Tim Berners-Lee developed HyperText MarkupLanguage.
Microsoft shipped Windows 3.0 on May 22
Linux was released to several Usenet newsgroups
ATI introduces their line of Radeon graphics products
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is introduced
CD burners start getting run out by DVD burners as file size continues to grow
Apple opens the iTunes store
Unbuntu, a Linux based OS, was first released
YouTube is released as an online video sharing site
The Core 2 Duo by Intel shakes the world of processing with incredible performance but it uses less power than the Pentium 4
Google introduces Android as a mobile operating system
Solid State Drives start making an apperance in more notebook computers as the main storage over regular Hard Disk Drives
Google's g-mail is finally released after spending several years in Beta
Original Ipad is released
Intel announces the commercialisation of 3D transistors
Oculus Rift Came out
Adam Osborne completed the first portable computer