| Year |
Event |
| 2000 |
Computers continue to work and the world doesn't come to an end on January 1, 2000 as some feared might happen because of the year 2000 bug. |
| 2000 |
A glitch in a computer in the Washing D.C.
air traffic control causes a shutdown of air traffic across the U.S. East Coast
January 6, 2000. |
| 2000 |
AOL acquires
Time Warner and becomes AOL Time Warner |
| 2000 |
Microsoft Bill Gates relinquishes his title as CEO to Microsoft President Steve Ballmer on January 13, 2000. |
| 2000 |
The domain twitter.com comes online
January 21, 2000. |
| 2000 |
EA releases
The Sims, the best-selling PC game in history February 04, 2000. |
| 2000 |
CNR is introduced by Intel February 07, 2000. |
| 2000 |
Microsoft Windows 2000 was released February 17, 2000. |
| 2000 |
U.S. Judge Thomas Penfield announced today after over 2-years in the court that Microsoft be split into two companies although will remain intact until the appeals process is exhausted. |
| 2000 |
VeriSign agrees to acquire Network Solutions for $21 billion on
March 7, 2000. |
| 2000 |
On March 10, 2000 NASDAQ hits its record high and marks the turning point of the dot-com boom. |
| 2000 |
Perl 5.6 is released March 22, 2000. |
| 2000 |
Microsoft Pocket PC 2000 is introduced
April 19, 2000. |
| 2000 |
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act becomes effective April 21, 2000. |
| 2000 |
ATI introduces their Radeon product line on April 24, 2000. |
| 2000 |
Young Filipino students releases the ILOVEYOU e-mail virus that begins infecting computers and spreading over the Internet
starting on May 4, 2000. The virus becomes one of the most costly viruses ever,
estimated causing over $10 billion dollars in damage because of the steps involved in cleaning a computer after it has been infected. |
| 2000 |
Donald Davies passes away May
28, 2000 (age 76) |
| 2000 |
On June 24, 2000 U.S. President Bill Clinton makes the first ever Presidential webcast among the announcements President Bill Clinton announces a new web site that will be able to search all government resources. |
| 2000 |
Jack Kilby is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| 2000 |
ATA-5 is approved by ANSI. |
| 2000 |
Google announces it has indexed over one billion pages making
it the Internet's largest search engine. |
| 2000 |
Microsoft releases Windows ME June 19, 2000. |
| 2000 |
Microsoft introduces C# to the public in June 2000. |
| 2000 |
For the first time more than half of the
households in America have Internet access on August 17, 2000 according to
Nielsen. |
| 2000 |
AT&T announces in October it will restructure over the next two years into a family
of separate publicly held companies: AT&T Wireless, AT&T Broadband, and AT&T. |
| 2000 |
Steve Wozniak is inducted into
the National Inventors Hall of Fame in September 2000. |
| 2000 |
Google launches Google AdWords with 350 customers in October of
2000. |
| 2000 |
Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei
Krikalev become the first to enter the International Space Station November 2,
2000 in what later becomes the longest continuously inhabited spacecraft. |
| 2000 |
Microsoft release DirectX 8, November 9, 2000. |
| 2000 |
The site egghead.com announces December
22, 2000 its site was hacked and that around 3.5 million customers credit cards
were exposed. |
