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__**1995**__ Key events: WINDOWS 95 COMMERCIAL media type="youtube" key="HM0DL5giOBU&hl=en&fs=1" height="278" width="341" But Netscape got its cross-platform Navigator to market first, in December 1994, and has in effect set a standard for openness, creating versions able to run on any desktop operating system -- Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. As a result, Netscape has been riding a wave of momentum created by capturing market share -- estimated as high as 85% -- as well as "mindshare" -- in the highly competitive browser market.
 * Yahoo is founded
 * Windows 95 is launched in August
 * DVDs come out
 * [|Ebay is launched]
 * Pentium pro is developed
 * IE is introduced as an option to the free Netscape


 * Excite is launched media type="custom" key="2130515"
 * [|Sun develops Java]

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 * MORTAL KOMBAT**- learning how to multi-task and use time with technology!



__1996__ key events: [|Bill Clinton: http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/edtech/audio/potus4pi.au] [|Al Gore: http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/edtech/audio/vp.au] media type="youtube" key="vhJVdHuuAAo&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="TQ6sQ382hRU&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"
 * e-bay continues to get bigger
 * Palm Pilots are introduced
 * [|Clinton's State of the Union address includes a vow to connect every American classroom to the internet]
 * [|cable is deregulated]
 * Ask Jeeves is started
 * Nintendo 64 is released in Japan
 * Pokemon is released (outside the US)

__**1997**__ key events: media type="custom" key="2131439" media type="youtube" key="OcsZt1_lnJQ&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="QJ3EP6W6W9Y&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="0lYGi9hoXsw&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"
 * priceline.com is started: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegray/851848145/
 * free speech is protected on the internet: http://www.aclu.org/privacy/speech/index.html
 * Microsoft begins bundling Windows with IE
 * TiVo is introduced
 * Nintendo 64 is released in Europe and Australia
 * Nasa's Pathfinder lands on Mars
 * Toyota Prius is released in Japan

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__**1998**__ Key events: media type="youtube" key="V6veXwhlhsg&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="-XUFvPyuakM&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="HpX35eD0OCU&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" > Copyright ©1998 Google Inc.
 * Windows 98
 * PCs cost less than $1000 dollars
 * [|Apple intros the iMac]
 * America finally gets //Pokemon//
 * Google opens [[image:http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/google.jpg width="351" height="113" align="center" caption="Google!"]]
 * [|http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com]/ ||

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 * All cell phones can now connect with each other
 * [|HDTVs come out ( $5,000 bucks each)]
 * 56K modem becomes standard

__**1999**__ Key events: media type="youtube" key="j3NfgF08EQE&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"
 * Windows 1998 2nd edition is released
 * Napstar begins
 * ibook is released
 * PowerMac G4 is released
 * SegaDreamcast is released


 * The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announces September 16 that it will give at least $1 billion in the next 20 years to fund full scholarships for minority students in the fields of education, engineering, mathematics, and science. Administered by Gates's father, William Gates II, the foundation has nearly $17 billion and will become the world's richest foundation early next year when an additional $5 billion donation swells its coffers to $21.8 billion, [|surpassing] the assets of Britain's $21.4 billion [|Wellcome Trust] and putting it far ahead of the $13.1 billion Ford Foundation (a [|philanthropic] fund must give away at least 5 percent of its endowment each year in order to keep its tax-exempt status). (from Wikipedia.com)
 * Some 100 million people use the Internet worldwide, up from 5 million in 1995, and thousands of new users log on each week; more than 90 percent of e-mail messages are in English. (from Wikipedia.com)

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 * Blackberry is introduced to the world. In its original form it was a two-way radio. [[image:file:moz-screenshot-2.jpg]]
 * Playstation 2 debuts in Japan