Editing Timeline of computing 1990–1999 (section)

==1997==
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| [[Tim Berners-Lee]] awarded the Institute of Physics' 1997 Duddell Medal for inventing the World Wide Web (see 1989).
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| ''[[Grand Theft Auto (video game)|Grand Theft Auto]]'' and ''[[Quake 2]]'' were released while Lara Croft returned in ''[[Tomb Raider II]]''. As standards for graphics kept increasing, 3D graphics cards were beginning to become mandatory for game players.
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| January 8
| Intel released Pentium MMX, 166 and 200 MHz versions. Its [[MMX (instruction set)|MMX]] instruction set is designed to increase performance when running multimedia applications.
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| May 7
| Intel releases the [[Pentium II]] processor, 233, 266, and 300&nbsp;MHz versions. It has a larger on-chip cache and expanded instruction set.
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| May 11
| [[IBM]]'s [[Deep Blue (chess computer)|Deep Blue]] became the first computer to beat a reigning World Chess Champion, [[Garry Kasparov]], in a full chess match. The computer had played him before, losing 5/6 games in February 1996.
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| June 2
| Intel released Pentium MMX, 233&nbsp;MHz version.
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| August 6
| After 18 months of losses [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]] was in serious financial trouble. Microsoft invested in Apple, buying 100,000 non-voting shares worth $150 million; many Apple owners disapproved. One condition was that Apple would drop the long-running [[Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp.|court case]]; attempting to sue Microsoft for copying the look and feel of their operating system when designing Windows.
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| September
| [[Internet Explorer 4]].0 was released.
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