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What happened in history on this day: January 25?
On January 25 in ...
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Personal Computer history:
- 1993 - The second annual PenExpo Conference and Exhibition is held at the San Francisco Hyatt in California.
- 1999 - Intel announces the new mobile Pentium II processors, with integrated 256 kB L2 cache. Code-name during development was Dixon. Speeds are 300, 333, and 366 MHz.
- 1999 - Intel announces the 266 to 300 MHz mobile Celeron processors for notebook computers, with integrated Level 2 cache.
- 1999 - Linus Torvalds releases the Linux 2.2 operating system kernel. Some new or updated features include better support for multiple processors and hard disks, and easier firewall setup.
- 2000 - U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte reinstates some restrictions on how Microsoft can use Sun Microsystems' Java technology in its products. Microsoft can not distribute products that are not compatible with Sun's Java license, but does not have to recall any existing non-complying products.
- 2001 - Michael Cowpland resigns from the Corel board of directors.
- 2003 - The Slammer worm (also called Sapphire or SQL Hell) begins spreading across the Internet, exploiting a flaw in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, infecting personal computers around the world. Within ten minutes, the worm has reached 90 percent of the Internet, infecting over 75,000 machines. Within another thirty minutes, one-fifth of Internet data packets are infected.
- 2004 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A personal computer appears, with dual floppy drives, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and printer.
Video Game history:
- 1947 - Dumont engineers Thomas T. Goldsmith Junior and Estle Ray Mann file for a patent on first electronic video game, the Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device. Players adjust knobs to direct light beam missiles to hit targets printed on clear overlays.
- 2003 - Capcom releases the Devil May Cry 2 video game for the PlayStation 2 in the US. Price is US$49.99.
- 2005 - Take Two Interactive announces it has acquired Visual Concepts Entertainment and Kush Games for US$24 million.
- 2011 - Electronic Arts releases the Dead Space 2 video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
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