Computer History - 1999

YearEvent
1999The 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.
1999The Intel Pentium III 500 MHz is released on February 26, 1999.
1999Microsoft acquires Access software April 19, 1999.
1999IEEE introduced 802.11b.
1999Microsoft releases Windows CE 3.0
1999Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 5.0 in March 18, 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.
1999RSAC becomes part of ICRA
1999The Intel Pentium III 550 MHz is released on May 17, 1999.
1999National Semiconductor announced it will exit the PC processor market. June 30, 1999 - VIA Technologies announces it will acquire Cyrix from National Semiconductor.
1999IBM introduces the first Microdrive, the world's physically smallest hard drive capable of storing 170MB.
1999The Intel Pentium III 600 MHz is released on August 2, 1999.
1999The Intel Pentium III 533B and 600B MHz is released on September 27, 1999.
1999Aims Labs goes out of business.
1999Amazon agrees to buy Accept.com, Alexa Internet (Alexa.com), and Exchange.com.
1999AOL purchases Nullsoft Jun 1, 1999.
1999NVIDIA introduces the GPU.
1999 The Melissa e-mail virus begins spreading over the Internet causing an estimated $80 million in damage.
1999Iomega releases its Zip plus disk drive and diskettes.
1999Sun Microsystems acquires StarDivision, the developers behind the StarOffice suite of software.
1999The Intel Pentium III Coppermine series is first introduced on October 25, 1999.
1999The D programming language starts development.
1999On December 1, 1999 the most expensive Internet domain name business.com was sold by Marc Ostrofsky for $7.5 Million.

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