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The first microprocessor has been developed by the American company Intel
The American company MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry system) builds the first minicomputer Altair 8080
Bill Gates (19) with his partner Paul Allen establish their company in Redmond. They want to transfer the program language BASIC to the Altair
The company Apple becomes established in California
The Apple II is the first personnel computer with floppy drive
At the Palo Alto Research center (PARC) Xerox develops the first computer with mouse and graphic user surface, the XeroxStar
First IBM-PC with M-DOS 1.0 of the company from Redmond
Apple commercializes the first computer with mouse and graphic user surface, Lisa, by means of the Xerox-invention
the company from Redmond commercializes the text processing word and starts with the development of Windows.
Hewlett-Packard shows the first laser printer with technology of Canon. The Apple-Macintosh comes to the market. Digitally Equipment presents Gem, the first graphic user surface
the company from Redmond sells Windows 1.0 for 100 dollars, however there is not much user software
The Pakistanian brothers Basit and Amjad Alvi issue the first computer virus, it attacks PC with the operating system M-DOS
Windows 3.0 becomes the bestseller and this is the bginning of the end of M-DOS
Linus Torwalds, a Finnish student, starts with the development of Linux, a PC-variant of the Unix system.
Tim Berners-Lee introduces the World Wide Web (WWW) at the Atomic Research Center in Geneva
The browser Netscape Navigator makes the World Wide Web popular
Due to a tremendous advertising campaign the company from Redmond sells more than 4 million licenses of the new operating system Windows 95 in the first days
US-Robotics commercializes the pilot, the earliest ancestor of all Palm organizers. Sun and Oracle want to break the monopoly of the company from Redmond with the Net-PC, which is nearly maintenance-free and loads its software over a computer network. The attempt fails
the company from Redmond introduces the Internet Explorer 4, as a counterpart to Netscape. Netscape loses thereupon the "Browser-war"
Apple comes back with the designer-PC iMac. With
computer and monitor in one housing and without floppy drive
One uses tray-PC for surfing the internet.
The computer conquers the Handys. First Smartphones come to the market