Internet search engines

The first Internet search engines are developed in 1990. University of McGill student Alan Emtage develops the first search engine for the Internet in 1990. The search engine is called Archie and is designed to search and archive documents available on the Internet. A year later, Paul Lindner and Mark McCahill develop another search application called Gopher at the University of Minnesota.
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Bill Gates

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates becomes the wealthiest person in the world in 1997. At the age of 41, William H. Gates III tops everyone with an estimated net worth of nearly forty billion dollars. His fantastic run begins with the development of a BASIC language interpreter for the Altair microcomputer in 1975.
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The Osborne 1

The Osborne 1 is released in 1981 and is considered to be the first portable computer. The computer features a 5-inch display, 64K of memory, a modem, and two 5 1/4-inch floppy disk drives. The twenty-four pound machine sells for $1,795 and comes with the CPM operating system, SuperCalc spreadsheet application and WordStar word processing application.
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Xerox

The Haloid Company is founded in 1906 to manufacture and sell photographic paper. Haloid acquires Chester Carlson's Xerography license in 1947 and sells the first xerographic copier in 1950. In 1958, the company changes its name to Haloid Xerox, and three years later, to Xerox Corporation.
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Mobile telephone service

The first commercial mobile telephone service begins in June 1946. A driver in St. Louis, Missouri uses a handset from under his car's dashboard to place the world's first mobile telephone call. A team from Bell Labs works for more than a decade to develop the service. By 1948, mobile telephone service is available in almost 100 cities and 30,000 calls are being made each week.
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Biggest computer hacker

Gary McKinnon, described as the world's biggest computer hacker, is arrested in June 2005. The unemployed computer engineer is accused of causing $1 billion in damage by breaking into the most secure computers at the Pentagon and NASA. McKinnon allegedly breaks into the networks from his home computer to try to prove his theory that the United States is covering up the existence of UFO's.
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Open Directory Project

Rich Skrenta sets out in spring of 1998 to create the web's most comprehensive directory. By late June, there are 200 editors, 27,000 sites, and 2,000 categories on what is dubbed the "GnuHoo" directory. Netscape acquires GnuHoo in 1998 and subsequently renames it the Open Directory Project. Today, this directory is the largest directory on the web and is used by more than twenty major search engines.
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