Computer History - 1999

Year	Event
1999	Hewlett Packard founds APOLLO on January 6, 1999, a subsidiary of HP with the intentions of selling sub-$100 printers.
1999	RIM releases the Blackberry January 19, 1999.
1999	@Home buys Excite for $6.7 billion USD January 19, 1999.
1999	The TiVo is introduced at the Consumer electronics show in January 1999.
1999	Yahoo! buys GeoCities for $3.65 billion USD January 28, 1999.
1999	The Victoria's Secret fashion show becomes the first major webcast on the Internet attracting over 1.5 million visitors on February 5, 1999. Unfortunately not everyone was able to view the webcast because of the popularity.
1999	The Intel Pentium III 500 MHz is released on February 26, 1999.
1999	IEEE introduced 802.11b.
1999	Microsoft releases Windows CE 3.0.
1999	RDF Site Summary, the first version of RSS is created by Ramanathan Guha at Netscape in March of 1999.
1999	Calcomp Graphics is founded.
1999	The popular massively multiplayer role-playing game (MMORPG) EverQuest is released March 16, 1999.
1999	Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 5.0 in March 18, 1999.
1999	The first Wiki is introduces with WikiWikiWeb on March 25, 1999.
1999	The Melissa begins infecting computers March 26, 1999 and quickly spreads around the globe over e-mail in hours and becomes one of the fastest spreading viruses in history.
1999	The popular sci-fi movie Matrix is released March 31, 1999.
1999	RSAC becomes part of ICRA.
1999	EVGA is founded.
1999	Yahoo purchases Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion April 1, 1999.
1999	AMD releases the Slot A processor and slot.
1999	Microsoft acquires Access software April 19, 1999.
1999	The Intel Pentium III 550 MHz is released on May 17, 1999.
1999	Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is released May 19, 1999
1999	National Semiconductor announced it will exit the PC processor market. June 30, 1999 - VIA Technologies announces it will acquire Cyrix from National Semiconductor.
1999	Apple introduces the Apple Airport and iBook on July 21, 1999.
1999	Microsoft introduces WMV with WMV 7.
1999	IBM introduces the first Microdrive, the world's physically smallest hard drive capable of storing 170MB.
1999	The Intel Pentium III 600 MHz is released on August 2, 1999.
1999	Sony and Philips Electronics introduce SACD.
1999	Disney Interactive Media Group is founded.
1999	AMD introduces the AMD Athlon processors August 9, 1999.
1999	Pyra Labs launches the Internet service Blogger August 23, 1999.
1999	The Intel Pentium III 533B and 600B MHz is released on September 27, 1999.
1999	Aims Labs goes out of business.
1999	Amazon agrees to buy Accept.com, Alexa Internet (Alexa.com), and Exchange.com.
1999	AOL purchases Nullsoft Jun 1, 1999.
1999	NVIDIA introduces the GPU.
1999	802.11i is introduced with WPA encryption.
1999	The Melissa e-mail virus begins spreading over the Internet causing an estimated $80 million in damage.
1999	Sun Microsystems acquires StarDivision, the developers behind the StarOffice suite of software.
1999	Total Entertainment Network renamed to Pogo.com.
1999	David Huffman passes away October 7, 1999.
1999	SiPix is founded.
1999	The Intel Pentium III Coppermine series is first introduced on October 25, 1999.
1999	The D programming language starts development.
1999	Thermaltake is founded.
1999	On December 1, 1999 the most expensive Internet domain name business.com was sold by Marc Ostrofsky for $7.5 Million The domain was later sold on July 26, 2007 again to R.H. Donnelley for $345 Million USD.
1999	Zhone Technologies is founded.
1999	RIAA sues Napster December 7, 1999.
1999	Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com is named Time Person of the Year December 27, 1999.
1999	TIME magazine includes Philo Farnsworth in "The TIME 100: The Most Important People of the Century".