Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

In mid-November 2000, the 9 / 11 Commission believes that Nami, Wail and Waleed al-Shehri, all of whom had obtained their U. S. visas in late October, traveled in a group from Saudi Arabia to Beirut and then onward to Iran where they could travel through to Afghanistan without getting their passports stamped.

His father and brother, Abdul Rahman al-Haznawi, reportedly last heard from him in late 2000, after he made references to training in Afghanistan.

Some time late in 2000, Haznawi traveled to the United Arab Emirates, where he purchased traveler's cheques presumed to have been paid for by Mustafa al-Hawsawi.

During the West Indies tour to Australia in late 2000, Lara was accompanied by Ward.

No active armed opposition has emerged in other parts of Chad, although Kette Moise, following senior postings at the Ministry of Interior, mounted a smallscale local operation near Moundou which was quickly and violently suppressed by government forces in late 2000.

In 2000, Larry Dolan bought the Indians for $ 320 million from Richard Jacobs, who, along with his late brother David, had paid $ 45 million for the club in 1986.

With the development of the internet, by the late 1990s and early 2000, much of that regulation had been replaced where newer industry technologies developed, offering viewers alternate choices for local events and programming leading to what is today, that being Digital Cable, Internet, and Phone being offered to consumers, bundled, by 2010.

Non-conformant browsers such as Internet Explorer 4. x and Netscape 4. x were still widely used as late as 2000.

DOM Level 2 was published in late 2000.

The first single, " Only Time ", was used in the film Sweet November and received U. S. radio airplay in late 2000.

It was purchased at an auction for $ 285, 000 in London late in 2000.

There was formerly one " Zulu " company of counter-revolutionary specialists, which was deactivated in late 2000 due to a mutiny by some of its members.

Crimson Skies was originally developed by Zipper Interactive under the FASA Interactive brand in late 2000 and used under license by FASA ; FASA Interactive had been purchased by Microsoft, so rights to Crimson Skies stayed with Microsoft.

In 2000 – 02 much of the controversy of the late 1970s and early 1980s was once again brought into the public consciousness with the opening of the truth and reconciliation commission.

On May 2, 2000, SA was disabled by President of the United States Bill Clinton ; in late 2001 the entity managing the GPS confirmed that they did not intend to enable selective availability ever again.

Still, given that the sources of this data has remained the same for the past 15 years, we can at least see a trend of unemployment staying high throughout this period, but rising sharply in the mid to late 90's peaking at 70 % in 1999 ( 2000 CIA World Factbook is the source for that number ), and then decreasing to the usual rates of around 50 % in recent years.

* Second Intifada, a period of intensified Palestinian – Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000 and ended around 2005

The group formally disbanded in 1991 but, largely due to the persistent efforts of Freda, reunited briefly in late 1999, performing a few shows in 1999 and 2000 and embarking on one last U. S. tour in 2001.

In late 2000, Mihdhar was back in Saudi Arabia, staying with a cousin in Mecca.

He married Melodie on May 24, 1998, and his first child, Laurel, was born in late November 2000.

It was intended to have a companion spacecraft known as Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander, but the lander mission was canceled in May 2000 following the failures of Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander in late 1999.

Some time late in 2000, Moqed traveled to the United Arab Emirates, where he purchased traveler's cheques presumed to have been paid for by 9 / 11 financier Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi.

These were followed by Gregory Benford's The Martian Race ( 1999 ), Geoffrey A. Landis's Mars Crossing ( 2000 ), and Robert Zubrin's First Landing ( 2002 ), which took as their starting points the smaller and more focussed expedition strategies evolved in the late 1990s, mostly building on the concepts of Mars Direct.

) In late 2000 IBM introduced 64-bit z / Architecture, acquired numerous software companies such as Cognos and introduced those software products to the mainframe.

While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.

The history of the Document Object Model is intertwined with the history of the " browser wars " of the late 1990s between Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, as well as with that of JavaScript and JScript, the first scripting languages to be widely implemented in the layout engines of web browsers.

During the mid to late 1980s, Microsoft and IBM had cooperatively been developing OS / 2 as a successor to DOS.

While the original Karaoke Revolution was also eventually released for the Microsoft Xbox console in late 2004, the new online-enabled version included the ability to download additional song packs through the console's exclusive Xbox Live service.

However, during the late 1990s and to date, Microsoft has been patching and updating their programs.

In the late 1990s, Adobe joined Microsoft in developing OpenType, essentially a functional superset of the Type 1 and TrueType formats.

Reports surfaced late in January 2006 that Apple's iWork had leapfrogged WordPerfect Office as the leading alternative to Microsoft Office.

An online version of the latest edition can be accessed through the paid Westlaw legal information service and as of late 2006, West Academic has published Black's Law Dictionary Digital, 8th edition ( ISBN 9780314176103 ) which has toolbars that integrate with Microsoft Word, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

By the late 1990s, the success of Microsoft Windows had driven rival commercial operating systems into near-extinction, and had ensured that the “ IBM PC compatible ” computer was the dominant computing platform.

The quick-brown-fox pangram, which has been used since at least the late 19th century, was utilized by Western Union to test Telex / TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability, and is now used by a number of computer programs ( most notably the font viewer built into Microsoft Windows ) to display computer fonts.

InfoWorld magazine editor Stewart Alsop helped popularize its use in this way by lampooning Bill Gates, then CEO of Microsoft, with a Golden Vaporware award for the 18-month late release of Microsoft's first version of Windows in 1985.

In his finding of facts for United States v. Microsoft, Judge Jackson determined that because of IBM's marketing of Lotus SmartSuite, and other alternatives to Microsoft products ( like World Book electronic encyclopedia instead of Microsoft's Encarta ), Microsoft " punished the IBM PC Company with higher prices, a late license for Windows 95, and the withholding of technical and marketing support.

Xenix is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system, licensed by Microsoft from AT & T in the late 1970s.

Microsoft is said to have used Xenix on Sun workstations and VAX minicomputers extensively within their company as late as 1992.

When the IBM PC arrived in late 1981, it came with PC-DOS, which was developed from 86-DOS, which Microsoft acquired for this purpose.

Perhaps the most famous antitrust enforcement actions brought by the federal government were the break-up of AT & T's local telephone service monopoly in the early 1980s and its actions against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

In late 2004, Microsoft introduced MSN TV2.

Microsoft ceased support for Win32s in Visual C ++ version 4. 2 released in late 1996.

In late 2003, Microsoft announced that it would not renew its contract with LookSmart, which at the time accounted for over 70 % of LookSmart's revenue.

Presentation Manager ( PM ) is the graphical user interface ( GUI ) that IBM and Microsoft introduced in version 1. 1 of their operating system OS / 2 in late 1988.

With the introduction of the < tt > WMA </ tt > and < tt > WMV </ tt > container formats in late 1990s, < tt > WAX </ tt > and < tt > WVX </ tt > extensions have also been introduced by Microsoft respectively.