1981 – The first mouse integrated with a personal computer made its appearance with the Xerox Star workstation.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/
1995 – The Justice Department sued to block Microsoft’s purchase of Intuit, claiming the acquisition would raise prices and squash innovation. Intuit still exists but Microsoft Money is long gone.
1998 – Roughly 8,000 AOL subscribers joined the first known live interspecies chat with Koko the gorilla. Koko signed her answers; Penny Patterson interpreted them; and an AOL chat facilitator entered them in the computer.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9804/24/gorilla.chat/index.html
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