Computer History - 2001

Year	Event
2001	Microsoft announces on January 1, 2001 Windows 95 is now a legacy item and will no longer be sold or shipped to any more customers.
2001	January 02, 2001 - Intel announced that it will recall its 1.13 GHz Pentium III processors due to a glitch. Users with these processors should contact their vendors for additional information about the recall.
2001	Linus Torvalds releases version 2.4 of the Linux Kernel source code on January 4th.
2001	William Hewlett passes away January 12, 2001 (age 88)
2001	The domain wikipedia.org comes online January 13, 2001.
2001	Wikipedia is founded on January 15, 2001.
2001	Herbert Simon passes away February 9, 2001 (age 85)
2001	Google acquires its first public acquisition: Deja.com's Usenet Service on February 13, 2001, which later becomes Google groups.
2001	Claude Elwood Shannon passes away on February 24, 2001 (age 85)
2001	UsRobotics introduces the V.92 modem standard February 27, 2001.
2001	Napster reaches over 26 million users February 2001.
2001	The man who practically invented the Silicon Valley success story, Hewlett-Packard Co. co-founder William Hewlett, dies at his home, he was 87.
2001	Chip-making giant Intel has agreed to acquire Xircom Inc., a maker of mobile computing gear, for about $748 million.
2001	Claude Elwood Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation of modern information theory while working at Bell Labs in the 1940s, died on February 24, 2001. He was 85.
2001	Electronic Arts purchases Pogo.com in March 2001.
2001	On March 08, 2001 AOL membership surpasses 28 Million.
2001	The Mir Russian Space station reenters Earth's atmosphere March 23, 2001 and breaks up after 15-years in space.
2001	The HyperTransport standard is introduced.
2001	Jim Ellis passes away June 28, 2001 (Age: 45)
2001	The Code Red worm begins infecting Windows computers in July 2001 with the intention of performing a DDoS attack on the White House government web page. The worm is estimated in causing $2 billion in damages and never succeeded in it's attack.
2001	Jan de Wit aka OnTheFly is convicted for the Anna Kournikova virus May 27, 2001.
2001	Nathan Rochester passes away June 8, 2001 (age 82)
2001	Bram Cohen introduces BitTorrent on a public message board July 2, 2001.
2001	Google Image Search is introduced offering access to 250 million images in July.
2001	LindowsOS (later Linspire) is founded by Michael Robertson in August of 2001.
2001	Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 in August 27, 2001.
2001	Compaq introduces the Compaq Presario line of computers August 27, 2001.
2001	The CDDB is officially renamed to Gracenote.
2001	Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.0 code named Cheetah and becomes available March 24, 2001.
2001	March 09, McAfee releases first handheld virus protection software.
2001	After 21 years of selling hard drives, Quantum sells its hard drive business to Maxtor to turn its full attention to higher-level storage products and services March 31, 2001.
2001	April 20, Dell computers becomes the largest PC maker.
2001	Roxio is founded.
2001	June 5, 2001, Nevada becomes the first U.S. state to vote to legalize online gambling.
2001	Airlines begin to implement methods of gaining Internet access while flying.
2001	Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.1 code named Puma and becomes available on September 25, 2001.
2001	USB 2.0 is introduced.
2001	Microsoft announces April 11, 2001 that it will no longer include Clippy with future releases of Microsoft Office.
2001	July 20, 2001 - PC shipments worst since 1986, as only Dell grows.
2001	Egghead files for Bankruptcy protection on August 18, 2001.
2001	SATA 1.0 is introduced in August 2001.
2001	AST Computers goes out of business and stops selling computers.
2001	Hewlett Packard announces plans to buy Compaq on September 6, 2001.
2001	Apple introduces the iPod and it goes on sell October 23, 2001.
2001	On October 9, 2001 AMD announces a new branding scheme. Instead of identifying processors by their clock speed the AMD XP will bear monikers of 1800+, 1700+, 1600+ and 1500+, with each lower model number representing a lower clock speed.
2001	Microsoft Windows XP home and professional editions are released October 25, 2001.
2001	Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2002) for Itanium systems is released.
2001	IBM starts the Eclipse project.
2001	The domain Stumbleupon.com comes online November 4, 2001.
2001	Microsoft releases the original Xbox game console November 15, 2001.
2001	Dean Kamen unveils the Segway December 3, 2001.
2001	The "Goner" virus is first discovered December 4, 2001 and ends up costing an estimated eighty-million dollars in damage.
2001	Xandros is founded.
2001	Rhapsody is released in December of 2001.
2001	In December 2001 the Google search engine is now indexing three billion web documents.