Computer History - 1995

Year	Event
1995	Apple allows other computer companies to clone its computer by announcing its licensed the Macintosh operating system rights to Radius on January 4.
1995	IBM introduces the butterfly keyboard.
1995	The dot-com boom starts.
1995	Code named Utopia, Microsoft Bob is introduced to the public January 5, 1995 at the CES by Bill Gates.
1995	The first Wiki is created.
1995	Yahoo.com domain is registered on January 18, 1995.
1995	Allen Coombs passes away January 30, 1995 (Age: 84)
1995	George Stibitz passes away on January 31, 1995 (Age: 91)
1995	Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI on February 15, 1999.
1995	EPoX is founded in February
1995	The first VoIP software (Vocaltec) is released allowing end users to make voice calls over the Internet.
1995	Apple develops FireWire.
1995	O'Reilly Media sells the Global Network Navigator ("GNN") to AOL in 1995.
1995	Netscape introduces SSL in February of 1995.
1995	Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested February 15, 1995.
1995	Yahoo! is incorporated March 1, 1995.
1995	Perl 5.001 is released March 13, 1995.
1995	Transmeta is founded.
1995	Tundra is founded.
1995	Matsonic is founded.
1995	Arnold I. Dumey passes away.
1995	The Opera browser version 1 is released April 1, 1995.
1995	John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert, Jr. passes away June 3, 1995.
1995	John Vincent Atanasoff passes away on June 15, 1995  at the age of 91.
1995	The movie 'The Net' with Sandra Bullock is released July 28, 1995.
1995	Silicon Image is founded.
1995	SegaSoft is founded.
1995	HighPoint Technologies is founded.
1995	Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 1.0 on August 16, 1995.
1995	The domain ebay.com comes online August 4, 1995.
1995	Netscape goes public at $28.00 a share and by the closing ends at $58.00 a share.
1995	The first E3 is held in Las Vegas Nevada.
1995	Intel introduces the SMBus.
1995	Microsoft and General Electrics NBC television network form a partnership.
1995	LiveScript is renamed to JavaScript.
1995	Java is introduced.
1995	The Iomega Jaz drive is introduced.
1995	Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 was released May 30, 1995.
1995	Microsoft Releases Windows 95, within four days the software sells more than 1 million copies.
1995	PHP is publicly released June 8, 1995.
1995	One of the largest and well known e-commerce sites today opens its website for the first time. Amazon.com is officially opened July of 1995.
1995	MARGI is founded.
1995	Real is founded.
1995	DSVD is released.
1995	WebTV Networks is founded.
1995	EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar.
1995	Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia.
1995	Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 2.0 on November 22, 1995 and officially starts the browser war between Netscape.
1995	CD-E is introduced to the general public.
1995	Ruby is released.
1995	eBay is founded on September 3, 1995.
1995	The movie Hackers is released September 15, 1995.
1995	On September 20, 1995 AT&T splits into three separate publically traded companies: a systems and equipment company, a computer company, and a communications services company.
1995	Microsoft releases DirectX 1.0 (4.02.0095) on September 30, 1995.
1995	EDO memory is introduced.
1995	Intel releases the new motherboard form factor ATX.
1995	Lotus becomes a part of IBM.
1995	The first computer network wiretap is authorized October 23, 1995 and leads later to the arrest of Julio Cesar Ardita.
1995	CPAN is introduced October 26, 1995.
1995	Intel introduces the Intel Pentium Pro in November.
1995	Toy Story is released November 22, 1995 becoming the first movie that is completely computer generated.
1995	HTML 2.0 standard is first published in RFC 1866 November 24, 1995.
1995	Larry Page and Sergey Brin begin developing a search engine called BackRub with PageRank, an important technology that becomes an important part of Google.
1995	On December 4, 1995 Sun Microsystems announced JavaScript and first releases it in Netscape 2.0B3. In the same year they also introduced Java.
1995	IBM unveils Deep Blue December 5, 1995, a parallel computing system that will later play the World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov.
1995	Internet search engine AltaVista launches December 15, 1995.
1995	Konrad Zuse passes away December 18, 1995
1995	USB standard is released.