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Computer History - 1996

Year Event
1996 The domain imdb.com comes online January 5, 1996.
1996 Netgear is founded January 8, 1996.
1996 Intel releases the 200 MHz P6.
1996 Jeffrey Lee Parson is born in 1996.
1996 IPv6 is introduced.
1996 Telecom Act deregulates data networks.
1996 For the first time more e-mail is sent than postal mail in USA.
1996 The first Java Development Kit (JDK 1.0) codenamed oak is released January 23, 1996.
1996 The game Duke Nukem 3D is released January 29, 1996.
1996 The domain myspace.com comes online February 22, 1996.
1996 The movie Twister becomes the first featured film put on DVD March 25, 1996.
1996 David Packard passes away on March 26, 1996
1996 Microsoft VBScript is introduced.
1996 Cuthbert Hurd passes away.
1996 Angelfire is founded.
1996 Alexa is introduced in April 1996.
1996 Dr. Thomas Pabst starts the Tom's Hardware website.
1996 Microsoft releases DirectX 2.0a (4.03.00.1096) on June 5, 1996.
1996 A domestic sheep by the name of Dolly is born and becomes the first mammal to be cloned
1996 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 was released July 29, 1996.
1996 Li-polymer batteries begin being used.
1996 HTTP/1.0 is specified in RFC 1945 and introduced in 1996.
1996 CREN ended its support and since then the network has cease to exist.
1996 What first started off as a Usenet, IMDb becomes incorporated as the Internet Movie Database, Ltd.
1996 Google is first developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
1996 KDE is started to be developed by Matthias Ettrich
1996 Macromedia purchases FutureWave and later releases Macromedia Flash 1.0.
1996 The first CSS specification, CSS 1, is published by the W3C in December 1996.
1996 The CDA amendment to the U.S. 1996 Telecommunications Act that went into effect on February 8, 1996. The law was intended to protect children from obscenity on the Internet, but many Internet users argued that its language was too vague and it violated the rights of free speech. Protesters against the law turned their web pages black and displayed blue ribbon icons downloaded from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. February 8, 1996 is more commonly known as "black Thursday."
1996 Cray Research merges with SGI.
1996 ATA-2 is approved by ANSI.
1996 IBM and Sears sell Prodigy is sold to Internet Wireless.
1996 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0 on August 13, 1996.
1996 AT&T introduces Worldnet.
1996 Microsoft releases DirectX 3.0 (4.04.00.0068) on June 5, 1996.
1996 AT&T spins off the system and technology unit, which later renames itself Lucent Technologies.
1996 IBM computer Deep Blue beats chess master Garry Kasparov in two chess matches for the first time on February 2, 1996.
1996 NEC merges its PC operations outside Japan with Packard Bell.
1996 Sony enters the PC market with the release of VAIO.
1996 Creative Labs introduces the 3D Blaster card its first graphics card to be released to the computer market.
1996 Apple Stock sinks to a 10-year low of less than $18.00 a share.
1996 U.S. Robotics Pilot is announced.
1996 Seagate has completed the merger of Conner Peripherals.
1996 Microsoft releases Windows CE.
1996 Tandy announces it will either sell or close all of its 17 incredible Universe stores and 19 of its Computer City stores because of low sales and losses in revenue.
1996 WebTV is introduced allowing users to browse the web from their TV July 10, 1996.
1996 MSNBC makes its debut.
1996 Microsoft introduces the IntelliMouse also known as a wheel mouse.
1996 Acer America Corporation introduces its designer home PCs.
1996 Sun Microsystems releases its line of network computers.
1996 Apple announces it will purchase NeXT for $429 million on December 20, 1996 and that it will acquire Steve Jobs, Apples cofounder, as a consultant.
1996 Microsoft Windows CE 1.0 is released as a portable operating system solution.
1996 Bit 3 becomes part of SBS Technologies.
1996 Seymour Cray passes away October 5, 1996.
1996 The U.S. Postal Services releases a new stamp commemorating the 50th birthday of the ENIAC.
1996 The first Tomb Raider game is released November 14, 1996.
1996 United States patent 5,579,430 is granted November 26, 1996 for the digital encoding process of MP3 files.
1996 K56Flex is announced in November by Lucent and Rockwell.
1996 Charles Molnar passes away December 13, 1996.
1996 Carl Sagen passes away December 20, 1996.
1996 The ATSC approves of HDTV on December 24, 1996.

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