| Year |
Event |
| 2001 |
Linus Torvalds releases version 2.4 of the Linux Kernel source code on January 4th. |
| 2001 |
William Hewlett passes away
January 12, 2001 (age 88) |
| 2001 |
The domain wikipedia.org comes online
January 13, 2001. |
| 2001 |
Wikipedia is founded on January 15, 2001. |
| 2001 |
Herbert Simon passes away February
9, 2001 (age 85) |
| 2001 |
Google acquires
its first public acquisition: Deaj.com's Usenet Service
on February 13, 2001, which later becomes Google groups. |
| 2001 |
Claude Elwood Shannon passes
away on February 24, 2001 (age 85) |
| 2001 |
UsRobotics introduces the V.92 modem standard February 27, 2001. |
| 2001 |
Napster reaches over 26 million users February 2001. |
| 2001 |
The man who practically invented the Silicon Valley success story, Hewlett-Packard Co. co-founder William Hewlett, dies at his home, he was 87. |
| 2001 |
Chip-making giant Intel has agreed to acquire Xircom Inc., a maker of mobile computing gear, for about $748 million. |
| 2001 |
Claude Elwood Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation of modern information theory while working at Bell Labs in the 1940s, died on February 24, 2001. He was 85. |
| 2001 |
On March 08, 2001 AOL membership surpasses 28 Million. |
| 2001 |
The Mir Russian Space station
reenters Earth's atmosphere March 23, 2001 and breaks up after 15-years
in space. |
| 2001 |
The HyperTransport standard is introduced. |
| 2001 |
The Code Red worm begins infecting Windows computers in July 2001 with the intention of performing a DDoS attack on the White House government web page. The worm is estimated in causing $2 billion in damages and never succeeded in it's attack. |
| 2001 |
Jan de Wit aka OnTheFly is convicted for the Anna Kournikova virus May 27, 2001. |
| 2001 |
Nathan Rochester passes away
June 8, 2001 (age 82) |
| 2001 |
Bram Cohen introduces BitTorrent on a public message board
July 2, 2001. |
| 2001 |
Google Image Search is introduced offering access to 250 million
images in July. |
| 2001 |
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 in August 27, 2001. |
| 2001 |
The CDDB is officially renamed to Gracenote. |
| 2001 |
Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.0 code named Cheetah and becomes available March 24, 2001. |
| 2001 |
March 09, McAfee releases first handheld virus protection software. |
| 2001 |
After 21 years of selling hard drives, Quantum sells its hard drive business to Maxtor to turn its full attention to higher-level storage products and services March 31, 2001. |
| 2001 |
April 20, Dell computers becomes the largest PC maker. |
| 2001 |
June 5, 2001, Nevada becomes the first U.S. state to vote to legalize online gambling. |
| 2001 |
Airlines begin to implement methods of gaining Internet access while flying. |
| 2001 |
Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.1 code named Puma and becomes available on September 25, 2001. |
| 2001 |
USB 2.0 is introduced. |
| 2001 |
Microsoft announces April 11, 2001 that it will no longer include Clippy with future releases of Microsoft Office. |
| 2001 |
July 20, 2001 - PC shipments worst since 1986, as only Dell grows. |
| 2001 |
Egghead files for Bankruptcy protection on August 18, 2001. |
| 2001 |
SATA 1.0 is introduced in August 2001. |
| 2001 |
AST Computers goes out of business and stops selling computers. |
| 2001 |
Hewlett Packard announces plans to buy Compaq on September 6, 2001. |
| 2001 |
Apple introduces the iPod and it goes on sell October 23, 2001. |
| 2001 |
On October 9, 2001 AMD announces a new branding scheme. Instead of identifying processors by their clock speed the AMD XP will bear monikers of 1800+, 1700+, 1600+ and 1500+, with each lower model number representing a lower clock speed. |
| 2001 |
Microsoft Windows XP home and professional editions are released October 25, 2001. |
| 2001 |
Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2002) for Itanium systems is released. |
| 2001 |
IBM starts the Eclipse project. |
| 2001 |
The domain Stumbleupon.com comes online
November 4, 2001. |
| 2001 |
Microsoft releases the original Xbox game console November 15, 2001. |
| 2001 |
Dean Kamen unveils the Segway December 3,
2001. |
| 2001 |
The "Goner" virus is first discovered
December 4, 2001 and ends up costing an estimated eighty-million dollars in
damage. |
| 2001 |
Rhapsody is released in December
of 2001. |
| 2001 |
In December 2001 the Google search engine is now
indexing three billion web documents. |
