2000

JANUARY
AOL announces plans to buy time warner for $160 billion

FEBRUARY
NASDAQ PEAKS AT 5,0448.62
Sensex peaks at 6000 levels

MARCH
India's first free ISP CalTiger launches operations

APRIL
Indian buy 1 million PC's in a year(1999-2000) for the first time; installed based crosses 5 billion

Indya.com launched with a Rs 4.5 crore ad on the cover page of a daily

Metalica files suit against Napster


JUNE
IT Act born

Yahoo launches India-specific web site

JULY

India's first private ISP gateway opens

Controversial P2P site Napster shut down

SEPTEMBER



MSN launches an India specific portal msn.co.in

DECEMBER


pets.com is the fisrt publicity held dotcom (in the US) to go belly up.