Amaya Toman With the start of a new week, there is another part of our series on historical events from the world of technology. Today we will remind you, for example founding of PC's Limited – predecessor of Dell Computer, the arrival of the ILOVEYOU computer virus or perhaps the beginning of the end of society Commodore Electronics.
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Founding of PC's Limited (1984)
May 4 of the year 1984 founded by a nineteen-year-old university student Michael Dell in his dorm room at the university in Austin, Texas he owns the company with name PC's Limited. As part of his activity, he successfully assembled and sold počítace. O three years later Dell renamed his company to Dell Computer Corp.
Acquisition of Commodore Electronics (1995)
May 4 of the year 1995 paid by a German company Escom AG $10 million for titles, patents and other intellectual property Commodore Electronics Ltd. The Commodore Company she graduated in 1994 its activity and declared bankruptcy. Company Escom AG she bought back owning a Commodore with a plan resume its production including the model Female friend, but also declared bankruptcy and related rights in 1997 she sold.
ILOVEYOU Virus Spreads Around the World (2000)
At the beginning of May 2000, among the owners of computers with the operating system Windows began to spread a virus called ILOVEYOU. Its rapid expansion occurred through e-mail messages, in the subject of which I said "ILOVEYOU". After its launch, the virus spread to all addresses stored in the application directory Outlook. The message included an executable file that searched the computer numbers a credit card passwords, which he sent back to the attacker via e-mail Vir also operated in the Windows system registries. In a relatively short period of time, there was an infection of approx three million computers around the world. Roughly 24 hours after the outbreak of the disease, a program called was released to the public Rational Killer, which was able to remove the virus files from the computer. The creator of the program - 25-year-old Thai engineer Narinnat Suiksawat - was offered a job at Sun Microsystems a little later.
Other events (not only) from the world of technology
- Tux the penguin becomes Linux mascot (1996)
