1992
Sega of America releases the Sega Multimedia Entertainment System, with a CD player. The unit is an add-on product for the Genesis system. Price: US$299
1993
Microsoft releases the Windows for Workgroups 3.11 operating system. The operating system features improved support for NetWare and Windows NT, along with numerous architectural changes meant to improve system performance and stability.
1997
Rodney Aloia founder and sysop (system operator) of The Index BBS in Georgia dies of massive head injuries in a skydiving accident. With sixty phone lines, The Index BBS is the largest BBS in the southeast United States. After his death, his friends and colleagues will continue to run the BBS in his memory, scaling back the number of phone lines but maintaining the BBS even up to its inclusion in Google Groups. Read the original announcement at Google Groups.
1998
Intel begins airing a commercial on American television entitled “Homer’s Smarter Brain”, featuring Homer Simpson of The Simpsons, with his brain replaced by a Pentium II processor, turning him into a professor.
1999
A new worm dubbed “BubbleBoy” is first detected. This proof-of-concept worm is sent to Network Associates, which immediately posted a free software patch and alerted the FBI of the danger. The danger presented by the worm is that it will infect a host if an MS-Outlook user merely highlights the subject line of the e-mail message carrying it. Opening the message isn’t necessary. The worm changes the infected computer’s registry displays a message screen, then spreads itself by mailing itself to every e-mail address on the infected system’s address list. Experts believe that this new worm poses an even greater potential danger than the Melissa virus that had previously caused such a sensation in the media.
US President William Clinton holds the nation’s first “virtual town hall meeting” on the Internet. Organizers claim that they expected about fifteen thousand people, but later, Excite.com will estimate that about twice that many actually participated.
2001
Microsoft releases DirectX 9. Visit the software’s official website.
2004
Pioneer announces the development of a technique which will allow optical drives to store up to 500 GB of data using ultraviolet lasers which emit shorter wavelength rays than blue lasers.
2006
Microsoft releases a version of Internet Explorer 7 specifically for Windows Vista.
Microsoft releases version 6.0 of the Windows NT operating system. Visit the system’s official website.
Microsoft releases Windows Vista to manufacturers.
2007
Retail giant Target announces that it is pulling the video game Manhunt 2 from its shelve due after the fact that the game’s violent content can be unlocked became public knowledge.
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