Real, dated releases and announcements - verified against official sources, not speculation.
Launched January 6, 2011 with over 1,000 apps, the Mac App Store brought one-click purchase and install to the Mac, logging a million downloads in a day.
Released as a public beta on April 5, 2006, Boot Camp let Intel Macs dual-boot Windows XP just months after Apple's architecture transition began.
How PCSX2's early commercial-game boot proved PlayStation 2 emulation viable, and why that milestone was only the start of decades of hardware research.
How the Ninth Circuit treated intermediate BIOS copying in Sony v. Connectix, what the ruling protected, and which questions it did not settle.
Disclosed September 24, 2014, Shellshock let attackers run arbitrary commands via a Bash environment-variable flaw, with botnets scanning for targets within hours.
Google's September 1998 incorporation turned a Stanford search prototype into a company, but the algorithm, domain, and first funding came earlier.
What happened on November 2, 1988, how the Morris Worm propagated, why it overloaded hosts, and how the incident changed internet security coordination.
Released July 29, 2015 as a free upgrade for Windows 7/8.1 users, Windows 10 reached over 75 million devices within a month on a bet on rapid adoption.
Released to manufacturing July 22, 2009 and to the public that October, Windows 7 refined Vista's foundations into one of Microsoft's most successful releases.
At PyCon on March 15, 2013, dotCloud co-founder Solomon Hykes introduced Docker to the world, ahead of the company's later pivot to focus on it entirely.