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Compaq Computer purchases Digital Equipment Corporation for $9.6 billion
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1998 Computer History
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Mozilla is initially formed
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Development for the Apple Newton OS and the Newton platform officially ends
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The CIH virus also known as Chernobyl virus is created and begins infecting computers
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Adobe Photoshop 5.0 is released
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Perl 5.005 is released
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Microsoft Windows 98 is officially released
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Apple introduces the iMac
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Google files for incorporation in California
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Microsoft announced that future releases of Windows NT would no longer have the initials of NT and that the next edition would be Windows 2000
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AOL announces it will acquire Netscape Communications for an estimated value of $4.2 billion