1984: The Apple Macintosh is announced to the world during a Superbowl

advertisement. The Macintosh is launched with a retail price of $2,500, according

to the NMAH.

1985: As a response to the Apple Lisa's GUI, Microsoft releases Windows in November
1985, the Guardian reported(opens in new tab). Meanwhile, Commodore announces the
Amiga 1000.

1989: Tim Berners-Lee, a British researcher at the European Organization for

Nuclear Research (CERN(opens in new tab)), submits his proposal(opens in new tab)
for what would become the World Wide Web. His paper details his ideas for Hyper
Text Markup Language (HTML), the building blocks of the Web.

1993: The Pentium microprocessor advances the use of graphics and music on PCs.

1996: Sergey Brin and Larry Page develop the Google search engine at Stanford
University.

1997: Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple, which at the time is struggling
financially. This investment ends an ongoing court case in which Apple accused
Microsoft of copying its operating system.

1999: Wi-Fi, the abbreviated term for "wireless fidelity" is developed, initially
covering a distance of up to 300 feet (91 meters) Wired reported(opens in new tab).

21ST CENTURY
2001: Mac OS X, later renamed OS X then simply macOS, is released by Apple as the
successor to its standard Mac Operating System. OS X goes through 16 different
versions, each with "10" as its title, and the first nine iterations are nicknamed
after big cats, with the first being codenamed "Cheetah," TechRadar reported.(opens
in new tab)

2003: AMD's Athlon 64, the first 64-bit processor for personal computers, is
released to customers.

2004: The Mozilla Corporation launches Mozilla Firefox 1.0. The Web browser is one
of the first major challenges to Internet Explorer, owned by Microsoft. During its
first five years, Firefox exceeded a billion downloads by users, according to the
Web Design Museum(opens in new tab).

2005: Google buys Android, a Linux-based mobile phone operating system

2006: The MacBook Pro from Apple hits the shelves. The Pro is the company's first
Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer.

2009: Microsoft launches Windows 7 on July 22. The new operating system features
the ability to pin applications to the taskbar, scatter windows away by shaking
another window, easy-to-access jumplists, easier previews of tiles and more,
TechRadar reported(opens in new tab).