| Year |
Event |
| 2002 |
In February 2002 Google releases its first hardware
device called the Google Search Appliance. |
| 2002 |
Excite@Home, one of the largest ISP's files for bankruptcy and closes its doors March, 02, 2002. |
| 2002 |
Gentoo is released March 31, 2002. |
| 2002 |
Approximately 1 billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the mid-'70s, according to a study released by consulting firm Gartner. |
| 2002 |
Jan de Wit aka OnTheFly is convicted May 1, 2002 for the Anna Kournikova virus. |
| 2002 |
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the
Clones is released May 16, 2002. |
| 2002 |
Napster files for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 3, 2002. |
| 2002 |
WorldCom the Number 2 long-distance telephone and data service company files for bankruptcy June 21, 2002. |
| 2002 |
PCI Express is approved as standard. |
| 2002 |
Perl 5.8 is released July 18, 2002. |
| 2002 |
The first Trackback is used on Movable Type. |
| 2002 |
Edsger Dijkstra passes away
August 6, 2002 (age 72) |
| 2002 |
Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.2 code named Jaguar and becomes available on August 23, 2002. |
| 2002 |
Cartoon turtle named "Dewie" introduced to help promote Internet safety and security. |
| 2002 |
Geoffrey Dummer passes away
September 9, 2002 (age 93) |
| 2002 |
The first of code that would later become
Mozilla Firefox is made available
September 23, 2002. |
| 2002 |
PayPal is acquired by eBay on October 3, 2002. |
| 2002 |
Keith Uncapher passes away
October 10, 2002 (age 80) |
| 2002 |
Iomega discontinues the Jaz drive. |
| 2002 |
Roxio acquires the Napster name and logo in a bankruptcy auction on November 25, 2002. |
| 2002 |
Hitachi closes deal to purchase IBM's hard drive operation for $2.05 billion. |
| 2002 |
Microsoft releases DirectX 9, December 19, 2002. |
| 2002 |
In December 2002 Google introduces Froogle, which
allows users to search for stuff to buy. |
