Editing 1999 in science (section)

==Computer science==
* March 26 – The [[Melissa worm]] attacks the Internet.
* June – {{IETF RFC|2616}} defines HTTP/1.1, the version of [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol]] in common use.
* September 21 – [[David Bowie]]'s ''[[Hours (David Bowie album)|Hours]]'' becomes the first complete music [[album]] by a major artist available to download over the Internet in advance of the physical release.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/22/business/the-flux-in-pop-music-has-a-distinctly-download-beat-to-it.html|title=The Flux in Pop Music Has a Distinctly Download Beat to It|first=Sue|last=Cummings|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=1999-09-22|accessdate=2013-11-01}}</ref>
* First working 3-[[qubit]] [[NMR computer]] demonstrated at [[IBM]]'s Almaden Research Center. First execution of [[Grover's algorithm]].
* The term '[[Web 2.0]]' is coined by [[Darcy DiNucci]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=DiNucci|first=Darcy|year=1999|title=Fragmented Future|url=http://darcyd.com/fragmented_future.pdf|url-status=live|journal=Print|volume=53|issue=4|page=32|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111110143942/http://darcyd.com/fragmented_future.pdf|archive-date=2011-11-10|access-date=2011-11-04}}</ref>
* Probable date – First [[emoji]]s introduced, in Japan.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}