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EA released the best selling game at the time The Sims
Developed by an American company Maxis and designed by Will Wright for personal computers. The game Sims was a open-ended simulation of people in a suburban aria in SimCity. Ranked as the top 10 best games by most people, the Sims games has made a combined well over $5 billion in revenue. -
The original Xbox comes out
The original Xbox was invented by a team of developers and engineers, among which Kevin Bachus, Ted Hase, and Otto Berkes. Their team leader was Seamus Blackley, an American engineer and video game designer. Originally selling for $300 sold 1.5 million units in just the first season. -
Firefox 1.0 is released
In the first year Firefox became a huge success with over 100 million downloads in the first year. -
The iPhone was released
In January the iPhone was introduced by Steve Jobs and in June the first gen iPhone was released to the public. -
Windows 7 was created
In 2007 Microsoft announced that they were creating an new program. In late 2008 they released Microsoft to manufacturing and in October of 2009 it was released to the public.