History Timeline

Jan 1, 1990

The Internet

The World Wide Web, Internet Protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) are created by Tim Berners-Lee.
Mar 1, 1993

Pentium Processor

Intel releases the Pentium processor on March 22 1993. The processor is a 60 MHz processor, incorporates 3.1 million transistors and sells for $878.00.
Feb 26, 1996

Playstation

Sony introduces its PlayStation video game console
Oct 5, 1997

Nintendo

The first Nintendo game system appears on shelves
Feb 26, 2000

Hybrid

Toyota releases first hybid car, the first of its kind.
Oct 23, 2001

iPod

Apple announces the first portable music digital player the iPod, created under project codename Dulcimer.
Apr 22, 2003

Opteron Processor

AMD releases the first single-core Opteron processors, with speeds of 1.4 GHz to 2.4 GHz and 1024 KB L2 cache.
Jan 1, 2005

YouTube

YouTube - the online video sharing and viewing community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
Jun 29, 2007

iPhone

The first generation iPhone is released by Apple.
Feb 26, 2008

Android

The Android OS cell phones are produced.
Apr 3, 2010

iPad

The first iPad is released for sale.
Oct 1, 2015

EMV

Payment Networks’ Liability Shift associated with EuroPay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV) is due to take effect in the United States.

The Internet