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June 27, 2008: Bill Gates Steps Down

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2008 – Microsoft CEO Bill Gates officially steps down from office. He hands the reigns over to Steve Ballmer, and stays on as Chairman of the Board.

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June 23, 1983: First successful test of the Domain Name System (DNS)

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1983 – Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel run the first successful test of the distributed Domain Name System (DNS). This automated process was to take over failing Arpanet and CSnet protocols because those relied on address books.

DNS uses a hierarchical distributed naming system for the Internet or any private network. It associates the domain names with numerical IP addresses.

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Nintendo 64 is launched
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November 9, 2004: Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Released

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2004 – Mozilla launches the web browser that would finally give Internet Explorer a run for it’s money. Firefox 1.0 web browser was created by Mozilla, who broke free from the Netscape Navigator browser to develop in Open Source. The Gecko layout engine browser would be available for Windows, Mac and Linux – with it being the standard browser in current flavors of Ubuntu. Last year on it’s 3.5 release, it set a new worlds record download. Firefox currently takes 1/5 of the market browser share.

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Blizzard settles a lawsuit with Micro Star
Netscape acquires Collabra
Albert Einstein is awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in Physics

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February 26, 1991: Introduction of first Web Broswer – WorldWideWeb

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February 26, 1991: Sir Tim Berners Lee Shows the WorldWideWeb via Browser[/caption]

1991 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee showed everyone the first web browser and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor. The Browsers’ name was called “WorldWideWeb”, but was later changed to “Nexus”. Berners-Lee ran it on the NeXTSTEP platform and worked with not only the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Nexus is not in production anymore.

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3Com announces they will acquire US Robotics
Intel introduces the Pentium III
Yahoo launches Buzz

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November 9, 2004: Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Released

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Blizzard settles a lawsuit with Micro Star
Netscape acquires Collabra
Albert Einstein is awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in Physics

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June 27, 2008: Bill Gates Steps Down

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2008 – Microsoft CEO Bill Gates officially steps down from office. He hands the reigns over to Steve Ballmer, and stays on as Chairman of the Board.

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Gillette makes the Erasermate – the first erasable pen
Atari is established

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June 23, 1983: First successful test of the Domain Name System (DNS)

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DNS uses a hierarchical distributed naming system for the Internet or any private network. It associates the domain names with numerical IP addresses.

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Nintendo 64 is launched
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June 27, 1995: Mosaic, Spyglass get IPO

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1995– A company founded by students in Illinois, Spyglass becomes a publicly traded company. Of course, their web browser – Mosaic – was the heart of their software. Spyglass was used in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 1.0. The company was ultimately acquired by OpenTV, a privately held internet TV company.

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