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1999

Pirates of Silicon Valley airs on TV

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2005

April 1 
Tiger announcement, everyone thinks it's a prank. Does not happen
April 5 
Possible announcement? WRONG
April 12 
X-Chat Aqua 0.14.0 is released
April 15 
Possible Tiger release? (No.)
In lieu of filing taxes, mroach adds linked.onebutan.com for uploading of files that aren't images or music.
April 27 
Power Mac range updated
April 29 
Actual Tiger Release!
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in American and UK theaters, along with XXX: State of the Union
May 3 
iMac G5 and eMac range updated
May 9 
Mac Megathread v2 is closed
Apple thread icon created
May 16 
Tiger 10.4.1 is released
June 6 
Hell freezes over Apple announces the beginnings of a movement to intel. More info can be found here: Apple_on_x86_FAQ.
June 28 
The iPod Generation 4 and iPod Photo are discontinued and replaced by the iPod Color
July 12 
Tiger 10.4.2 is released
July 17 
The 500,000,000th song is sold on iTMS
July 29 
HP stops selling the HP-branded iPod
Aug 2 
Apple introduces Mighty Mouse, the first Apple mouse with right click, but no buttons!
This wiki moves to applepedia.com. Onebutan.com is now deprecated. The MediaWiki software is upgraded in the process.
1000 Widgets are now available for Tiger
Aug 3 
iTunes Music Store Japan launches
Aug 29 
Safari 2.0.1 and 1.3.1 updates are released
Sept 7 
iTunes 5.0 is released
iTunes phone is announced
iPod Nano is unveiled
Harry Potter iPod is unveiled
Oct 12 
Steve decides 5.0 is too prime, odd, and Fibonacci, iTunes 6.0 is released
iPod Generation 6 with video released
Speed-bumped iMac G5 with Front Row released
Oct 19 
Aperture introduced
Speed-bumped Power Mac G5 with dual-core CPUs introduced
PowerBook G4s speed-bumped with more battery life and higher resolution screens
Steve Jobs voted "busiest man ever"
Oct 31 
Tiger 10.4.3 is released
iTunes Music Store sells millionth video, after starting Oct 12. That's about 52631.5789 videos every day!
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2006

January 10 
February 14 
February 28 
April 3 
April 5 
  • Apple announces the immediate availability of Boot Camp in beta form. The world is stunned.
April 25 
June 27 
July 25 
August 7 - August 11 
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2007

Apple starts "iTunes radio", broadcasts to iPod µ, is a GBS FM ripoff.

10.5 codename pool is released. Mac Megathread 4: A New Hope created.

BonzoESC gets G4 PowerBook, highly dismayed to find that OS upgrade is painless.

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2008

Apple starts relaying the RDF through the iPod µ. Bill Gates buys a Mac, declares it Insanely Great, attempts to shut down Windows, is kicked off board.

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2009

World domination.

PowerBook G5 released.

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2010

Longhorn is released. It's just Windows XP with huge clock, and the search dog has been renamed to "rufus".

Apple buys Vin Diesel's video game studio, names next version of OS X "Tigon".

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2011

Apple releases a two button mouse with a scroll wheel. The masses revolt.

iRail, PowerCoil home defense products released. Highlights from the Jobs Keynote: "Insanely Great home protection." "Vehicle-disabling, limb-destroying carnage that Mere Mortals can use."

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2012

Steve Jobs commits suicide and is buried in a one button'd cofin.

PowerRail, a vehicle-mounted railgun, is released. Slicker and more refined than the existing consumer-level mobile railgun products. Several units explode in a firey incident of magnetic resonance 18 months down the road, a problem attributed to Thorium charges that degrade over time.

HyperCard Studio is released, combining the awesomeness of HyperCard and Cocoa.

End of the world, as that's where the Mayan calendar ends.

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2013

Three games released for Macs.

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2014

RailMini released for $500. Requires buying ammunition, mounting hardware, and in-car tactical HUD separately.

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2020

Duke Nukem Forever is released for Windows. Mac version to be finished "real soon now".

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