Week In Tech History – 4-27-09 – iTunes Store Launches

Week In Tech History – 4-27-09 – iTunes Store Launches

April 26th, 2009 | Author: Jeffrey Powers - @geekazine

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April 28th 2003. With 200,000 songs and a eye on the music market, Apple launched the iTunes Store. At that time, the Windows version was not out yet (had to wait until October 17th of that year), but the first week alone they had over a million sales.

Other items of note – the first computer mouse and the first Windows mouse. We also saw the Sasser Worm come up and Google’s IPO.

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