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==1997== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Date ! class="unsortable" | Event |- valign="top" |? | [[Tim Berners-Lee]] awarded the Institute of Physics' 1997 Duddell Medal for inventing the World Wide Web (see 1989). |- valign="top" |? | ''[[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. |- valign="top" | 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. |- valign="top" | May 7 | Intel releases the [[Pentium II]] processor, 233, 266, and 300 MHz versions. It has a larger on-chip cache and expanded instruction set. |- valign="top" | 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. |- valign="top" | June 2 | Intel released Pentium MMX, 233 MHz version. |- valign="top" | 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. |- valign="top" | September | [[Internet Explorer 4]].0 was released. |}
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