1990-2000

Student #13 and 27 Music Playing Device Invention- Napster Inventor- Shawn Fanning [|History] [|Inventions] [|Inventor]
 * [[file:1990-2000 DECADE TIMELINE.TL5]]DECADE: 1990-2000 **

-What was happening in the computer industry and in what years? 1. Napster was a computer program created in the 1990. 2. It was believed that the internet could be the worlds biggest library.

-Who was the inventer? 1. Shawn Fanning thought up the idea of Napster. -Historical events in America in 1999? 1. President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the US Senate in his impeachment trial. It is said that he gave a false, misleading testimony. 2. A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000 people. After the tragic event they had a 5.6 after shock jus four hours later. 3. The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft work processing and e-mail systems around the world. Melissa shut down e-mail addresses and attacked word processor.

-World events in 1999? 1. Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. The bomb destroyed most of the Yugoslavian city, Novi Sad. 2. Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System. The treaty was started and signed in Washington 39 years prier. 3. In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo de Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" was put on display. De Vinci is known world wide as a genius.