• The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito.
• The NICAD battery begins its commercial use.

• IBM ships the first mass-produced computer, the IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator.
• The first version of FORTRAN (formula translator) is published by IBM.

• Dartmouth College’s John McCarthy coins the term "artificial intelligence."
• Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer. Transistors are faster, smaller and create less heat than traditional vacuum tubs, making these computers more reliable and efficient.
• The ENIAC is turned off for the last time. It’s estimated to have done more arithmetic than the entire human race had done prior to 1945.

IBM announces it will no longer be using vacuum tubes and releases its first computer that had 2000 transistors, the IBM 7090.
Digital Equipment Corporation is founded by Kenneth Olsen. The company will later become a major network computer manufacture.
The United States forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).

• Doug Englebart initially develops such theoretical concepts as windows, mouse, multitasking, and even remote procedure calls.
• The first integrated circuit was produced by Texas Instruments on 12th September 1958. Prior to this development an electronic circuit consisted of resistors, capacitors, transistors and wiring/etches, each component was manufactured separately by different processes and integrated into an electronic circuit on a PCB using wiring/etches and solder connections to create a working circuit.
  Jack Kilby came up with the idea of creating an integrated circuit'' using a silicon wafer. By adding impurities to the silicon they could create resistance, capacitance, transistor junctions and conductive paths on a single silicon "chip". This IC would be a self contained circuit with no external wiring or solder connections.

• General Motors puts the first industrial robot – the 4,000 pound Unimate – to work in a New Jersey factory.
• IBM introduces the highly successful 1400 series mainframes. Their success makes the case for general-purpose computers rather than specialized systems.

• A young computer programmer from MIT, Steve Russell fueled with inspiration from the writings of E.E. "Doc" Smith*, led the team that created the first computer game. It took the team about 200 man-hours to write the first version of Spacewar. They used a PDP-1, an early DEC(Digital Equipment Corporation) interactive mini computer which used a cathode-ray tube type display and keyboard input. The million dollar computer was a donation to MIT from DEC, who hoped MIT's think tank would be able to do something remarkable with their product. A computer game called Spacewar was the last thing DEC expected.
• Ole-Johan Dhal and Kristen Nygaard develop the Simula programming language at the Norwegian Computing Center (NCC) in Oslo between 1962 and 1967. Simula is based somewhat on the ALGOL 60 programming language. In many ways, this is where it all begins: Simula is pretty much the first object-oriented programming language ever. Together with the representational systems in AI in the 1960s (which give birth to later frame-based knowledge representations) a very large portion of modern OO development techniques are derived.

• Doug Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse.
• The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange among computers.

• Dartmouth University’s John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Language (BASIC).
• The TRANSIT system becomes operational on U.S. Polaris submarines. This system later becomes known as GPS.
• IBM announces the first computer using integrated circuits.

• Ted Nelson coins the term "hypertext," which refers to text that is not necessarily linear.
• Engineers at TRW Corporation develop a Generalized Information Retrieval Language and System which later develops to the Pick Database Management System used today on Unix and Windows systems.
• DEC introduces the PDP-8, the first commercially successful minicomputer.

• MIT’s Joseph Weizenbaum writes a program called ELIZA, that makes the computer act as a psychotherapist.
• Stephen Gray establishes the first personal computer club, the Amateur Computer Society

• The first handheld calculator using IC's was produced by TI. It performed the 4 basic functions of the calculators of those days add, subtract, multiply, divide
• Alan Shugart is generally regarded as the inventor of the floppy drive while working for IBM in 1967. He later founded Shugart Associates to design and manufacture floppy drives. David Noble, one of Shugart's engineers at IBM actually came up with the idea of 8" flexible media inside a cloth lined jacket.
• The LOGO programming language is developed and is later known as "turtle graphics," a simplified interface useful for teaching children computers.
• The first paper is published about the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET).

• Intel Corporation is founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
• The movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" is released.
• Edsger Dijkstra pens his famous letter entitled "GO TO Statement Considered Harmful" -- perhaps the first stone cast in the battle against spaghetti code.

• Control Data Corporation led by Seymour Cray, release the CDC 7600, considered by most to be the first supercomputer
• AT&T Bell Laboratories develop Unix.
• Gary Starkweather, while working with Xerox invents the laser printer.
• The U.S. Department of Defense sets up the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET ) this network was the first building block to what the Internet is today.
• CompuServe, the first commercial online service, is established
• AMD is founded.

• U.S. Department of Defense develops ada a computer programming language capable of designing missile guidance systems.
• Intel introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
• Centronics introduces the first dot matrix printer.
• Alan Kay coins the terms "object-oriented" and "object-oriented programming."

• The first e-mail program is developed
• Niklaus Wirth of the Technical University of Zurich introduces the Pascal programming language. Pascal eventually forms the basis for many subsequent languages such as Modula-2, Modula-3 and Object Pascal, the popular object-oriented language in Borland Delphi. The work of Wirth and other fathers of structured programming (like Edsger Dijkstra, see also the entry for 1968) founds the modern discipline of software engineering.
• First commercially available microprocessor and first floppy disk are released.

• Vinton Cerf develops the host-level protocols for the ARPANET. Cerf, hard of hearing since birth, married a lady who was deaf. Cerf communicated with his wife by using text messaging. Had it not been for his experience, Cerf may not have used text messaging to the extent that he did, and he may not have integrated e-mail as part of the functionality of ARPANET, the precursor to Internet.
• Dennis Ritchie develops the initial version of the C programming language at Bell Laboratories.
• Bell Laboratories begins development of the UNIX operating system, using C.
• Nolan Bushnell develops PONG for Atari.
  
• The compact disc is invented in the United States.

• Xerox develops Smalltalk, one of the first object-oriented languages, in the Learning Research Group at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC). Alan Kay is credited as the originator of the major elements of the language which is based on Simula, LISP and SketchPad with theories based on biological concepts such as "cells" communicating with each other.
• Robert Metcalfe presents ideas about the Ethernet method of network connection while at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. The basic idea of "Internetting" is born.
• Donald Knuth lays down the foundations of modern software engineering in a number of now-classic works.

• Intel’s improved microprocessor chip, the 8080 becomes a standard in the microcomputing industry.
• The first Article on the Transmission Control Program (TCP) is published.
• The first public packet switching network is deployed.
• IBM develops SEQUEL, which today is known as SQL today.
  

• Paul Allen and Bill Gates write the first computer language program for personal computers, which is a form of BASIC designed for the Altair. Gates later drops out of Harvard and founds Microsoft with Allen.
• The first supercomputer, the Cray-1, is introduced.
  Marvin Minsky introduces "frames" in artificial intelligence (AI) programming, which are an ancestor of modern "objects" in later languages such as C++.
• First International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) is held in Framingham, Massachusetts. During the conference, such concepts as database abstraction and multi-level architectures for relational databases are discussed, laying the groundwork for modern client/server databases.
• Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman invent Scheme programming language (based on LISP) while at MIT.
• Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computers.
• In January of 1975, John Walker discovered a new way of distributing his Univac game files and inadvertently wrote the world's first computer virus. The game was called ANIMAL, a self-learning variation of 20 questions, which asked you to think of an animal. Walker coded a subroutine called PERVADE, whch could be called by any program and quietly copied itslef to any directory the current user had access to.
  

• The first 5.25-inch floppy disk is invented.
• The Intel 8086 is introduced
• The first popular word processor for microcomputers was Electric Pencil written by Michael Shrayer.
• Xerox develops the widely used networking protocol Ethernet.

• Ward Christansen develops a popular modem transfer modem called Xmodem.
• ARCNET the first commercial network is developed
• USENET is established.
• The personal computer revolution begins with the launch of the affordable Apple ][, Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) and the Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 in the same year. Self-contained unit, with a CPU, RAM, ROM, keyboard, monitor and tape recorder are priced at $495.00

• Epson introduces the TX-80, which becomes the first successful dot matrix printer for personal computers.
• Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie publish The C Programming Language, after years of development. While not object-oriented itself, C heavily influences or forms the basis of many modern OO programming languages such as C++, Objective C, Java, and C#.
• Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston develop the first electronic spreadsheet, called VisiCalc, for the Apple computer. VisiCalc is perhaps the world's first "killer app."
• Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss have the first major microcomputer bulletin board up and running in Chicago.
• Niklaus Wirth enhances and expands on his Pascal programming language and introduces Modula-2.

• Software Arts Incorporated VisiCalc becomes the first electronic spreadsheet and business program for PCs.
• Hayes markets its first modem which becomes the industry standard for modems.
• The U.S. Government publishes the preliminary specification of the Ada programming language. Originally named "green" for the color of the cover of the report in which it was first described, it is later named for the first programmer, Ada Augusta King.
• Mike Cowlishaw develops the initial version of REXX (Restructured Extended Executor) programming language at IBM.
• Atari introduces a coin-operated version of Asteroids
• Usenet is first started

• IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. The pair buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template. IBM allows the two to keep the marketing rights to the operating system, called DOS.
• The first Tandy Color computer is introduced
• Bjarne Stroustrup invents object-oriented extensions to C and calls the new language "C with Classes" while at Bell Laboratories. These object-oriented features were inspired in part by earlier object-oriented languages such as Simula-67
• Grady Booch develops a design process for Ada -- referred to as Booch Diagrams -- that evolves and is eventually applied to other object-oriented languages
• Winchester hard drive is introduced (today known as the "hard drive").

• MS-DOS 1.0 was released August, 1981.
• IBM introduces the IBM Personal Computer based on the Intel 8088 Microprocessor running at 4.77 MHz
• American National Standards Institute more commonly known as ANSI was founded.
• Adam Osborne introduces the Osborne I, the first successful portable computer, which weighs 25 pounds.
• Commodore ships the VIC-20, which later becomes the world’s most popular computer costing only $299.95.

• Written for the Apple II, the first microcomputer virus was mostly benign. In 9th grade, Richard Sktrenta, Jr. wrote a prgram called Elk Cloner that stayed resident in system memory after its disk was removed, but would later copy itself to any new disk inserted into the drive. Elk Cloner counted the number of times the infected disk was booted from, and on the fiftieth boot, the screen would display a little poem.
• WordPerfect Corporation introduces WordPerfect 1.0 a word processing program that will become one of the computer markets most popular word processing program.
• Lotus Development Corporation is founded and Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet program is introduced.
• Columbia Data Systems, or as it was later known, Compaq Computer Corp. is founded by Rod Canion and other Texas Instruments Incorporated engineers. They introudced the first true IBM bus compatible "clone" personal compute, the MPC, in June of 1982. There had been several MS-DOS compatible personals up to that time that ran DOS programs but they had proprietary buses or designs that limited their broad acceptance. Columbia shipped the first hard drive based systems (5MB formatted capacity) before IBM did. Their controller was not compatible with the controller that IBM shipped later and Columbia quickly responded with a (mostly) IBM compatible replacement.
• The Commodore 64 begins to be sold with 64 kilobytes of random-access memory and containing Microsoft BASIC and dropping in price from $600 to $200 allows it to become the best-selling computer of all time.
• The Intel 80286 processor is announced.
• Sun Microsystems introduces its first workstation, the Sun 100
• TCP/IP protocol suite becomes the standard for "the Internet.
• The computer is named Time magazine's Man of the Year

• MS-DOS 2.0 was released March, 1983.
• A committee is formed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to standardize C
• Stroustrup's "C with Classes" is renamed "C++."
• Microsoft Windows was announced November, 1983

• SETI is founded.
• The 3.5-inch floppy diskette is introduced and later becomes an industry standard.
• IBM introduces the Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) video card with higher resolution, more colors, and a quicker response then previous video cards.
• Microsoft introduces MS-DOS 3.0 for the IBM PC AT and MS-DOS 3.1 for networks.
• University of Southern California professor Fred Cohen creates alarm when he warns the public about computer viruses.
• 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.
• Apple introduces the Macintosh, the first mainstream computer with a graphical user interface (GUI)
• Richard Stallman founds the GNU Project.
• Domain Name Server (DNS) is introduced.
• The number of hosts on the Internet exceeds 1000.

• Intel introduces the 80386, a 16 MHz processor that incorporates 275,000 transistor and capable of accessing up to four gigabytes of memory. The processor sells for $299.
• Digital Research releases GEM (Graphics Environment Manager), beating Windows to market.
• Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced in November, 1985 and is initially sold for $100.00.
• The Commodore Amiga and Atari ST ship. Both feature advanced GUIs and multimedia capabilities and are touted as "color Macintoshes."
  
• The first commercial CD-ROM drives ship based on Sony and Philips technology.
  
• Bjarne Stroustrup publishes The C++ Programming Language, thus allowing C++ to beat out Objective-C and other contenders. It emerges as the dominant object-oriented language in the computer industry.
  
• Bertrand Meyer introduces Eiffel programming language.
  

• The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) is created, forming a backbone for network connectivity. Several similar networks around the world eventually combine with this network to create the foundation for the modern Internet.
  
• Intel ships the 80386 chip.
  
• Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is introduced.
  
• The International Organization for Standards (ISO) develops and standardizes Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
  
• First Conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) is held in Portland, Oregon.

• Microsoft introduces Windows 2.0 in December 9, 1987. It can utilize the protected mode of Intel's 80286 processor, thus breaking the DOS memory barrier
• MS-DOS 3.3 was released April, 1987.
• IBM and Microsoft announce OS/2 1.0.
  
• Apogee is founded, Apogee is well known for its computer games as well as the company who first released a 'Shareware' game.
• IBM introduces VGA.
• William Atkinson, an engineer at Apple, designs HyperCard, an interactive rather than language-based programming tool with strong user-interface features. This revolutionary concept helps lay the foundation for visual component-based programming and rapid application development (RAD).
• Larry Wall develops and releases Perl 1.0 (Practical Extraction and Report Language) scripting language.
• Digital Equipment Corporation and Olivetti develop the Modula-3 programming language to correct some of the deficiencies of Pascal and Modula-2.
• The number of hosts on the Internet exceeds 10,000.
  

• 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.
• The second Edition of Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language is published, incorporating the latest standards of the proposed ANSI C specification.
• John Ousterhout develops Tcl (Tool Command Language) while at University of California, Berkeley.
  
• The first issue of the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (JOOP) is published.
  
• IBM's OS/2 1.1 with Presentation Manager ships. It is the first OS/2 with a GUI.
  

• Intel releases the 486DX processor, with more than 1 million transistors and multitasking capabilities.
• Tim Berners-Lee's proposal regarding information management and networks is written and circulated at CERN (the European Particle Physics Laboratory).
  
• The Object Management Group (OMG) is founded. It is committed to developing vendor independent specifications for the software industry. (The consortium includes about 800 members as of the year 2000.) The OMG begins development of specifications for Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). CORBA is essentially middleware between applications and communications that provides interoperability between systems and data.
  
• The ANSI C standard is finally adopted.
  
• The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is established.
  
• The number of hosts on the Internet exceeds 100,000.

• Microsoft releases Windows 3.0 operating system, the first popular version of Windows. It offers significant improvements including Program Manager, File Manager and improved stability. It immediately dominates the market.
• Microsoft releases first version of Visual Basic, ushering in a concept that eventually comes to be known as Rapid Application Development (RAD). Programming with visual objects becomes a mainstream concept.
• A project based on Berners-Lee's proposal of 1989 is started. The name World Wide Web is conceived and the first WWW WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) browser/editor is produced on a NeXT computer. Berners-Lee develops initial version of HTML and other key WWW concepts.
• ARPANET ceases to exist.
• Guido van Rossum develops Python, an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
  
• Baezner, Lamoe and Unger describe Sim++, a distributed, discrete-event simulation language.
  

• Linux is introduced by Linus Torvald.
• Sun Microsystems develops the Java programming language as part of a research project to create software for consumer electronic devices like TVs and VCRs. It contains many object-oriented programming features similar to C++.
  
• The World Wide Web is launched. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the European Partial Physics Laboratory (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland develops the Web as a research tool.
• WWW is announced in the CERN newsletter, and a WWW browser is demonstrated at Hypertext '91 in San Antonio, Texas.
  
• Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) and Gopher are introduced.
  
• The Trojan Room Coffee Pot camera is put up at Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory, the first client/server application written to use the lab's then-new RPC mechanism.
  
• Guido van Rossum releases Python to USENET.
• Following its decision not to develop operating systems cooperatively with IBM, Microsoft changes the name of OS/2 to Windows NT.
• Pretty Good Privacy more commonly known as PGP a public key used for encryption is released as Freeware by Philip Zimmerman.
• TrueType a scalable font is introduced and developed by Microsoft and Apple and is used on all Apple computers and PC computers running Windows.
• MS-DOS 5.0 was released June, 1991.
  

• Intel releases the 486DX2 chip with a clock doubling ability that generates higher operating speeds.
• IBM's OS/2 2.0 begins shipping. The release includes IBM's Systems Object Model (SOM), a multi-platform and language-neutral object model compliant with CORBA 1.1.
• An alliance of companies including Apple, IBM and Lotus begin developing OpenDoc. OpenDoc is a multi-platform and language-neutral object model based somewhat on IBM's SOM.
  
• Microsoft releases the Windows 3.1 operating system.
  
• The first GUI client for X is completed.
  
• Microsoft introduces Windows 3.1. It sells more than 1 million copies within the first two months of its release.
• The number of hosts on the Internet exceeds 1 million.
  

• Intel releases the Pentium Processor. The processor is a 60 MHz processor, incorporates 3.2 million transistors and sells for $878.00. The first models are plagued by an FPU bug.
• The PC game DOOM by IdSoftware was released December 1993. Today DOOM is thought of as a turning point for first person shooters and for games in general.
• The first release of Marc Andreessen's Mosaic is unveiled at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
• Microsoft ships the first version of Component Object Model (COM). COM competes with OpenDoc and CORBA, but is not CORBA-compliant. COM forms the basis of -- or is directly related to -- other Microsoft technologies such as Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), ActiveX, Distributed COM (DCOM), and others.
  
• Microsoft gains the reputation of the confusing practice of naming and renaming similar technologies based on marketing needs.
• The Trojan Room Coffee Pot is put on the Web. It is believed to be the first image on the WWW.

• Commodore computers files Bankruptcy.
• Microsoft releases its beta for Windows 95, code named Chicago
• MS-DOS 6.22 was released April, 1994
• YAHOO is created in April, 1994.
• The first draft of the proposed ANSI standard for C++ is released.
  
• Mosaic Communcation Corp. (later to become Netscape) is formed by Marc Andreessen, James Clark et al.
  
• Perl 5 is released. It is a major rewrite of previous versions, and the first to add OO capabilities to the popular scripting language.
  
• Rasmus Lerdorf creates the initial version of Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), an open-source server scripting language similar to C.
  
• Initial CORBA 2.0 specification is released; it specifies how ORBs from different vendors can interoperate.
  
• IBM releases OS/2 Warp 3.0.
  
• The Unified Modeling Language (UML) takes its initial form as the main object-oriented design and analysis methodologists (Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and Jim Rumbaugh) join forces to define a method for specifiying, visualizing and documenting the elements of an object-oriented system. The UML standard builds on Booch, OMT and OOSE methods and is developed under the auspices of the Open Management Group (OMG).
  
• The W3 Consortium is formed, and the first meeting is held at MIT in December.
  

• Microsoft Releases Windows 95, within four days the software sells more then 1 million copies.
• NSFNET ceases to be the main U.S. backbone and is replaced by network providers.
  
• The Apache Group is organized and the Apache HTTP Server Project is founded to develop open-source web server software based on NCSA's httpd server. Apache uses modules rather than components, but the ideas are similar in many ways.
  
• Sun Microsystems officially launches Java to the public with free client software.
  
• Micosoft releases the 32-bit Windows 95 operating system, a major milestone for Windows and a significant upgrade from 3.x. Win32, the API in Windows 95 and NT, includes further enhancements to OLE, based originally on Microsoft's COM.
  
• Microsoft's Visual Basic gains widespread use with VBX (Visual Basic Custom Control) technology. VBX components are eventually replaced by ActiveX controls and components, which are based on evolving COM technology.
  
• Microsoft releases the first version of its DirectX software development kit.
  
• Borland releases Delphi 1, a Rapid Application Development (RAD) programming environment. It is the first mainstream object-oriented visual development tool with an optimizing native-code compiler and scalable database engine. Delphi is based on an object-oriented version of Pascal called "Object Pascal." Borland quickly follows the release of Windows 95 with a 32-bit version of Delphi, becoming the first 32-bit RAD tool. http://www.borland.com
  

• Macromedia purchases FutureWave and later releases Macromedia Flash 1.0
• Sun releases Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.0.
  
• Microsoft coins the term ActiveX at the Internet Professional Developers Conference (Internet PDC) in March.
  
• Microsoft ships Windows NT 4.0. It features the Windows 95 user interface and numerous bundled server processes, notably its Internet Information Server (IIS) Web server.
  
• Sun introduces the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API specification, the first standardized effort to integrate relational databases with Java programs.
  
• Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0, which begins to make up significant ground on Netscape's Navigator.
  
• Allaire releases ColdFusion, an application server with Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) that integrates server-side, Web-oriented scripting, allowing developers to build advanced Web/database applications. This sparks a trend of many application server tools from many vendors.
  
• The KDE project is founded.
  

• Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4.0 and gains dominance in browser technology.
  
• IBM’s Deep Blue computer defeats world champion chess player Garry Kasparov in their second six-game showdown, winning the tie-breaking game in only 62 minutes.
• The Intel Pentium II 233 MHz processor is released.

• W3C publishes recommendations for Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0.
  
• Microsoft launches Windows 98.
• The ANSI C++ standard is published.
• Netscape releases source code for its Navigator Web browser and makes it freely available to the public. The Mozilla Organization coordinates how this source code is developed. The Mozilla Project includes XPCOM, a "lightweight cross-platform COM work-alike."

• The Intel Pentium III 500 MHz is released.
• NVIDIA introduces the GPU.

• 1 GHz mainstream computers with CPUs from AMD and Intel are widely available.
• Microsoft releases Windows 2000 and Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0 with ASP 3.0.
• SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is released.
• Microsoft announces C#.
• IBM ships WebSphere with support for Java servlets, JavaServer Pages, XML, EJB components, and CORBA. This is a good example of the growing trend of Web server appliances and application servers that make use of the latest object-oriented technologies and standards.
  
• Microsoft ships Windows Me.
• The StarOffice source hits the Net at OpenOffice.org.
• Mozilla 0.6 is released.
  
• Many experts, governments and businesses feared that January 1st 2000 could cause serious issues with the date stamp on computers. The belief was that because many old computers relied off of the last two digits of a year such as 99 for 1999, when the year 2000 came 2000 would set the computers to 00 causing the computer to think it was 1900. Called the Year 2000 bug many individuals feared for the worst however because of preparation Year 2000 only caused a few glitches, however no catastrophes.

• Microsoft Windows XP home and professional editions are released October 25, 2001.
• Borland ships Kylix, the first native rapid application development tool for Linux. It is modeled on Delphi and C++ Builder and features CLX components/objects, which include many visual, nonvisual, database, and networking components.
  Trojan Room Coffee Pot is taken down.