| Year |
Event |
| 1994 |
Commodore computers files Bankruptcy. |
| 1994 |
Vice President Al Gore makes a speech where he coins the term "Information Superhighway." |
| 1994 |
IBM releases OS/2 Warp. |
| 1994 |
CDDI is adopted into the X3-T9.5 standard. |
| 1994 |
VESA Local Bus 2.0 is released. |
| 1994 |
Intel releases the second generation of Intel Pentium processors on March 7, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Netscape (Mosaic Communications corporation) is found by Marc Andreesen and James H. Clark April 4, 1994. |
| 1994 |
3DFX is founded. |
| 1994 |
Microsoft introduces SMS, now known as SCCM. |
| 1994 |
Iomega releases its Zip disk drive and diskettes. |
| 1994 |
Red Hat Linux is founded. |
| 1994 |
Microsoft releases its beta for Windows 95, code named Chicago. |
| 1994 |
Rasmus Lerdorf creates PHP. |
| 1994 |
IBM PCD introduces the IBM ThinkPad 775CD, the first notebook with an integrated CD-ROM.
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| 1994 |
Hotwired sells the first banner ad to AT&T on October 27, 1994 and begins running the first Internet banner ad campaign. |
| 1994 |
A mathematical flaw in the Intel Pentium involving the Pentium not correctly performing floating-point calculations is discovered. Later this leads to Intel millions of processors. |
| 1994 |
YAHOO is created in April, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Sunbelt Software is founded. |
| 1994 |
The e-mail hoax "Good Times virus" is first sent out in e-mail. The hoax claimed that an e-mail containing "Good Times" in the subject was spreading on the Internet and if opened would erase everything on the hard drive and to forward the warning to all your friends. This e-mail continues to be sent out even today. |
| 1994 |
MS-DOS 6.22 was released April, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Intel introduces the Intel 486DX4 processor. |
| 1994 |
ANSI approves the ATA standard May 12, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Bashir Rameyev passes away May 16, 1918 |
| 1994 |
Microsoft releases Windows 3.11. |
| 1994 |
Geek Squad is founded June 16, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Jay Miner passes away June 20, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Norway's telecom company, Telenor, starts a research project that later becomes Opera Software |
| 1994 |
Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 was released September 21, 1994. |
| 1994 |
The W3C organization is founded by Tim Berners-Lee on October 1, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Commodore completed its file for bankruptcy. |
| 1994 |
The Mach Project ends. |
| 1994 |
Mosaic Netscape 0.9, the first Netscape browser is officially released October 13, 1994. This browser also introduces the Internet to Cookies. |
| 1994 |
Perl 5.000 is released October 17, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Professor Thomas Nicely sends an e-mail on October 30, 1994 describing the Intel FPU bug. |
| 1994 |
Amazon.com domain is registered November 1, 1994. |
| 1994 |
WXYC (89.3 FM Chapel Hill, NC USA) becomes first traditional radio station to announce broadcasting on the Internet November 7, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Mosaic branches off the company Netscape November 14, 1994. |
| 1994 |
The W3C organization holds its first meeting December 14, 1994. |
| 1994 |
Netscape version 1 is released. |
| 1994 |
On December 24, 1994 Unisys and CompuServe announced that they expected licensing fees for software that creates and displays GIF images. This caused a lot of hysteria among developers and website owners using GIF images because of potential future GIF taxes that lead to the development of the PNG format. |
