| 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
David Huffman passes away October 7, 1999. |
| 1999 |
The Intel Pentium III Coppermine series is first introduced on October 25, 1999. |
| 1999 |
The D programming language starts development. |
| 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 |
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". |
