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- - - - 1996: Sergey Brin and Larry Page
        develop the Google search engine
        at Stanford University.
      - 1997: Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple, which was struggling at the time, ending Apple's court case against Microsoft in which it alleged that Microsoft copied the "look and feel" of its operating system.
      - 1999: The term Wi-Fi becomes
        part of the computing language and
        users begin connecting to the
        Internet without wires.
        
        2001: Apple unveils the Mac OS X operating system, which provides protected memory architecture and pre-emptive multi-tasking, among other benefits. Not to be outdone, Microsoft rolls out Windows XP, which has a significantly redesigned GUI.
        
        2004: Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 challenges Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the dominant Web browser. Facebook, a social networking site, launches.
        
        2003: The first 64-bit processor, AMD's Athlon 64, becomes available to the consumer market.
        
        2005: YouTube, a video sharing service,
        is founded. Google acquires Android,
        a Linux-based mobile phone operating system.
        
        2006: Apple introduces the MacBook Pro,
        its first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer,
        as well as an Intel-based iMac. Nintendo's
        Wii game console hits the market.
        
        Then in 2007: The iPhone brings many
        computer functions to the smartphone.
        
        2009: Microsoft launches Windows 7,
        which offers the ability to pin applications
        to the taskbar and advances in touch
        and handwriting recognition, among other features.
        
        2010: Apple unveils the iPad,
        changing the way consumers
        view media and jumpstarting the
        dormant tablet computer segment.
        
        2011: Google releases the Chromebook,
        a laptop that runs the Google Chrome OS.
        
        2012: Facebook gains 1 billion users on October 4.
        
        2015: Apple releases the Apple Watch. Microsoft releases Windows 10.
  - - - Though in 1975 The January issue of Popular Electronics magazine features the Altair 8080, described as the "world's first minicomputer kit to rival commercial models." Two "computer geeks," Paul Allen and Bill Gates, offer to write software for the Altair, using the new BASIC language. On April 4, after the success of this first endeavor, the two childhood friends form their own software company, Microsoft.
        
        After the year of 1975 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers on April Fool's Day and roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board, according to Stanford University. in 1976
        
        1977: Radio Shack's initial production run of the TRS-80 was just 3,000. and in 1977: Jobs and Wozniak incorporate Apple and show the Apple II at the first West Coast Computer Faire. It offers color graphics and incorporates an audio cassette drive for storage. Then in 1978: Accountants rejoice at the introduction of VisiCalc, the first computerized spreadsheet program.
        
        in 1978 Accountants rejoice at the introduction of VisiCalc, the first computerized spreadsheet program.
        
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