| Year |
Event |
| 2004 |
MySpace official site is launched January 2004. |
| 2004 |
Google jumps into the Social Networking with the release of Orkut in
January 2004. |
| 2004 |
The Mydoom computer virus with 250,000 infected computer begin to dos attack the SCO site February 1, 2004. |
| 2004 |
In February 2004 Google is now indexing six billion
items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images. |
| 2004 |
Mark Zuckerberg launches Thefacebook
February 4, 2004, which later becomes Facebook |
| 2004 |
WPA2 begins being used. |
| 2004 |
The photo sharing site Flickr is launched
in March of 2004. |
| 2004 |
Comcast purchases TechTV March 25, 2004 to form G4TechTV. |
| 2004 |
Google announces Gmail on April 1, 2004.
Many people take it as an April Fools joke. |
| 2004 |
PC Maker Gateway closes all its retail stores
April 2, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Lindows changes it's name to Linspire April 14, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Kelkea purchases the assets of MAPS. |
| 2004 |
The Cabir aka SymbOS/Cabir virus and fist known cell phone virus is discovered June 14, 2004 and is capable of spreading to other Symbian phones over Bluetooth. |
| 2004 |
The first five reported killed in South
Waziristan by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) June 18, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Bob Bemer passes away June 22, 2004 (age 84) |
| 2004 |
Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.4 code named Tiger at the WWDC on June 28, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Apple introduces AirPlay. |
| 2004 |
Intel starts the development of the BTX form factor. |
| 2004 |
COPPA goes into effect July 1, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Google acquires Picasa. |
| 2004 |
Google's initial public offering (IPO) of 19,605,052 shares becomes available at $85 a share August 18, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Google now has more than 100 domains. |
| 2004 |
Bob Evans passes away September
2, 2004 (age 77) |
| 2004 |
Alain Glavieux passes away
September 24, 2004 (age 55) |
| 2004 |
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is released on October 12, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Internet site Yelp is launched on October
13, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Google acquires Keyhole in October 2004, which later becomes Google Earth. |
| 2004 |
The first release of Ubuntu is released October 20, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Firefox 1.0 is first introduced on November 9, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Blizzard's World of Warcraft game, the most popular and
successful MMORPG is released November 23, 2004. |
| 2004 |
Google now indexes 8 billion web pages. |
| 2004 |
IBM sells its computing division to Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion on December 08, 2004. |
| 2004 |
David Wheeler passes away December 13, 2004 (age 77) |
| 2005 |
Jeffrey Parson aka T33kid is convicted January 1, 2005 for the Blaster computer worm. |
| 2005 |
SBC announced it would purchase AT&T for more than $16 Billion USD January
31, 2005. |
| 2005 |
Google Maps is launched February 8, 2005. |
| 2005 |
Lenovo completes the acquisition of IBM's Personal Computing Division. |
| 2005 |
YouTube is founded and comes online February 15, 2005. |
| 2005 |
Google acquires Urchin in March 2005, which later becomes Google Analytics. |
| 2005 |
Verizon introduces FiOS. |
| 2005 |
Yahoo announces that it will acquire the popular photo service Flickr on March 21, 2005. |
| 2005 |
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
is introduced March 22, 2005. |
| 2005 |
The first YouTube video entitled "Me at the zoo" is uploaded April 23, 2005 by Jawed Karim. |
| 2005 |
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is released on April 24, 2005. |
| 2005 |
George Dantzig passes away May
13, 2005 (Age: 91) |
| 2005 |
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the
Sith is released May 19, 2005. |
| 2005 |
Google introduces its Personalized Homepage in May 2005, which is now known as
iGoogle. |
| 2005 |
Apple announces it plans on switching its computer to the Intel processors June 6, 2005. |
| 2005 |
Eiichi Goto passes away June 12, 2005 (age 74) |
| 2005 |
Jack Kilby passes away June 20, 2005 (age 82) |
| 2005 |
Microsoft announces it's next operating system, codenamed "Longhorn" will be named Windows Vista on July 23, 2005. |
| 2005 |
IBM officially announces on July 14, 2005 that all sales of OS/2 will end on December 23, 2005 and that all support from IBM for OS/2 will end on December 16, 2005. |
| 2005 |
MySpace is purchased by News Corporation for $580 Million US on July 18, 2005. |
| 2005 |
On September 12, 2005 eBay acquired Skype for approximately $2.6billion. |
| 2005 |
The Pandora Internet Radio service is
launched August 25, 2005. |
| 2005 |
Google hires DARPA veteran Vint
Cerf September 2005 to carry on his quest for a global open
Internet. |
| 2005 |
Google releases Google Analytics in November 2005. |
| 2005 |
TeamViewer is founded. |
| 2005 |
Microsoft releases the Xbox 360, the second generation of their popular game console
November 16, 2005. |
| 2005 |
Adobe completes its acquisition of Macromedia on December 3, 2005. |
| 2005 |
Yahoo! buys del.icio.us for $20 million
December 12, 2005. |
| 2005 |
Maxtor is acquired by Seagate Technology December 21, 2005. |
| 2005 |
Forrest Parry passes away December
31, 2005 (Age 84) |
