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1979

In 1979, Truong sold R2E to Bull.

1981

Other companies like IBM soon entered the market with computers such as the IBM PC, which first launched in 1981.

Friedl used the SCAMP prototype to gain approval within IBM to promote and develop IBM’s 5100 family of computers, including the most successful, the 5150, also known as the IBM Personal Computer (PC), introduced in 1981.

1984

Apple introduces the Macintosh with a television commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl, which plays on the theme of totalitarianism in George Orwell´s book 1984.

1985

Dell dropped out of school to focus on his business and in 1985, the company produced the first computer of its own design, the Turbo PC, which sold for $795.

1987

Perl was developed by Larry Wall in 1987 because the Unix sed and awk tools (used for text manipulation) were no longer strong enough to support his needs.

Thomas, while earning a PhD at the University of Michigan, had created an early version of the program in 1987, and John saw a practical use for it as a special effects staff member at Industrial Light & Magic.

1991

The Linux kernel, which became the basis for the open-source Linux operating system, was released in 1991.

The project was a successor to the Oak programming language created by James Gosling in 1991.

1992

Dubbed a “Personal Data Assistant” by Apple President John Scully in 1992, the Newton featured many of the features that would define handheld computers in the following decades.

1993

Thousands of software titles were released over the lifespan of the C64 and by the time it was discontinued in 1993, it had sold more than 22 million units.

1994

In 1994, the Java project team changed their focus to the web, which was becoming “the cool thing” after interactive TV failed.

1995

IBM purchased Lotus in 1995.

1996

OPENSTEP was used as one of the foundations for the new Mac OS operating system soon after NeXT was acquired by Apple in 1996.

1997

HTML 5 is announced as the successor to HTML 4, which had become the standard for web markup languages in 1997.

1998

The Newton line never performed as well as hoped and was discontinued in 1998.

1999

In 1999, RIM released the very first Blackberry 850 device and quickly became the worlds fastest growing company.

2000

Until the year 2000, it was the world's fastest supercomputer, able to achieve peak performance of 1.3 teraflops, (about 1.3 trillion calculations per second).

2005

Lenovo, China's largest manufacturer of PCs, purchased IBM's personal computer business in 2005, largely to gain access to IBM's ThinkPad line of computers and sales force.

It was developed by Bram Cohen and was initially an open source program, but became closed source in 2005.

2006

At the 2006 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announces it will create a program to deliver technology and resources to targeted schools in the least developed countries.

The C64, as it is better known, sells for $595, comes with 64 KB of RAM and features impressive graphics. It is recognized by the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records as the greatest selling single computer of all time.

2007

Then, in 2007, Apple changed computing with the release of the iPhone.

2009

The Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") update, released in 2009, completed the Mac's transition from a 32-bit to a 64-bit operating system.

2012

In 2012, Apple introduced the Retina display for the MacBook Pro laptop and iPad tablet.

2013

In October 2013, the one millionth Raspberry Pi was shipped.

2021

As of November 2021 the most powerful computer in the world is the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku, developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu.

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