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Apple introduces Macintoshcomputers

The rise of HTML

First IBM PC to come withan internal hard drive as standard

Seagate releases the first 5.25-inchhard disk Winchester

SyQuest introduces the firstportable hard disk with a capacityof 5 MB

Taiyo Yuden company releasesa CD-R

Flash memory is inventedHome microcomputer ZX-80 thebest known in Europe

Microsoft introduces File SystemNTFS Beginning of the Internet. ARPAnet

Oracle Corporation releases Oracleversion 5, which supportsthe clientserver model

SCSI is officially standardized bythe American National StandardsInstitute

One of the first examples of digitalforensics - Clifford Stoll pursuitof hacker Markus Hess

The begining of RAID storage FAT 16 File Allocation Tableis created

Digital Data Storage (DDS)is a format for storing and backingup computer data on magnetic tape

Linear Tape-Open (or LTO)a magnetic tape data storageis developed

Begining of WWW Famous Michaelangelo virus

First extended file system (EXT)created especially for Linux

First full Linux distribution

CompactFlash (CF) is produced

EMC develops the conceptof network-attached storage

Hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested

IBM computer Deep Blue beatschess master Garry Kasparov

The term cloud computing isused for the first time

VMware introduces full virtualiza-tion

M-Systems introduces flash-basedSSD drives

Microsoft introduces FAT 32

Google.com domain is registeredFirst mobile device with theInternet - Nokia 9000i

Millenium bug - The Year 2000problem

Microsoft Pocket PC 2000is introduced

Love hurts - virus 'I love you'

DVD-R appeared on the market Wikipedia is foundedQuantum sells its hard drivebusiness to Maxtor

Blu-ray technology is introduced

MySpace is launched

The game Second Life is released

Hitachi takes over IBM's hard drivebusiness

LinkedIn is launched

The photo sharing site Flickris launched

Toshiba produces the first commerciallyavailable disk drive (1.8") usingperpendicular recording technology

Maxtor is acquired by SeagateTechnology

Facebook is created

YouTube is created

The company Cloud Computingintroduces the idea of securely storingunlimited amounts of data without

physical, onsite hardware

Amazon.com opens AWS cloud

Apple introduces iPhone Dropbox is founded Google releases Android

Microsoft releases Virtual PC

130 exabytes of data is stored inthe cloud

Microsoft introduces Office 365

Stuxnet worm is first discovered Apple releases iPad

Release of legendaryDisk Manager

First data recovery case in company history

First onsite recovery in military conditions during Desert

Storm in Kuwait by Greg Olson and Stuart Hanley

Massive data recovery after attack ofMichelangelo

virus

Official launch ofComputer Forensics services

First Remote Data Recovery over Internet connection

Retrieve presentation for the Nagano Olympics

Committee

Massive data recovery cases after millenium bug (Y2K)

Data recovery after terrorist attack on WTC

Data recovery from onboard scientific computers after

Space Shuttle Columbia crash

Kroll Ontrack acquires European competitor NorwegianIbas Vogon

Recovery ofGothenburg Rescue Service Data Center flooded by sea

Saved critical pieces of world history fromWWIIwhen we recovered & converted data from 300 disks

Data recovery after tsunami in Japan

Recovery of data from hard drive after 20 months in thesea

Kroll Ontrack recoved data and evidence of data sabotage in

Omega Company case - important US goverment contractor

Massive data recovery after Hurricane Katrina

Maxtor disk manufactureris founded

Compaq is founded and becomesIBM's biggest competitor

MySQL is introduced Apple introduces the iMac

Apple introduces the MacBook AirWorldwide notebook computershipments exceed desktops for thefirst time

Kroll Ontrack starts up

First recovery from SSD Drive

Kroll Ontrack launched recovery technologies from complexVMware environments

Robert Morris realeses the Morrisworm

Launch ofOntrack EasyRecovery software

Launch ofOntrack PowerControls e-mail recoverysolution for Exchange

First Recovery for the cloud

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Kroll OntrackEvents

ITEvents

Brief history of digital life bit by bit

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