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A lot has changed since Remote Data Backups started protecting business data back in early 2000. We look back proudly on... - All the businesses we've saved with successful data recoveries,
- The milions of successful file restores, and NO lost files, that bring instant relief,
- The praise we've received from satisfied clients, including 400+ written testimonials (http://t.RDBU.com),
- And the clients who returned to us after painful experiments with so-called competitors.
What hasn't changed is our complete dedication to 100% reliable, business-class backups; and our personalized, responsive and free 24/7 phone support for our partners and clients. Here's a quick look at how things have changed, and a look back at tech and news headlines in 2000: Then & Now | 2000 | Today | | Median Annual Income | $44,853 | $46,900 | | Gallon of Gas | $1.26 | $2.62 | | US Postage Stamp | 33 cents | 44 cents | | Cell Phone Subscribers | 90 million | 277 million (89%) | | Internet Users | 44.1% | 74.1% | | Windows OS releases | 2000 & ME | Windows 7 | | Unemployment Rate | 3.9% | 10.0% | | Dow Jones | 11723 (1/14/00) | 7062 (2/27/09) | | NASDAQ | 5132.52 (3/10/00) | 2195.02 | |  | Top 10 U.S. Technology Headlines for 2000 | | Jan. 1 | Concerns over Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer problems that were predicted | | Jan. 10 | AOL buys Time Warner for $165 billion | | Jan. 13 | Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer | | Feb. 6 | Microsoft releases Windows 2000 | | March 10 | NASDAQ peaks at 5132.52, just before the dot com bubble bursts and thousands of DotComs go bust | | April 14 | Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster | | May 2 | President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to U.S. military | | May 14 | "I love you" virus spreads worldwide in a day, causing 50 million infections and $5.5 billion in damage | | June 20 | Faulty Bridgestone/Firestone tires on the Ford Explorer range blamed for nearly 100 fatalities | | Dec. 19 | European Airbus Consortium begins building world's largest passenger plane, the 656-passenger Airbus A3xx | Top 10 U.S. News Headlines for 2000 | | Feb. 7 | Tiger Woods becomes the youngest player to win a Grand Slam in Golf | | Feb. 13 | The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies | | April 22 | Cuban boy Elián González, 6, reunited with his father after federal raid of Miami relatives' home | | April 25 | Vermont approves same-sex unions | | Aug. 23 | 51 million viewers watch the first season finale of the reality show "Survivor" | | Sept. 15 | Over 5 million acres destroyed by brush fires in Western US worst in 50 years | | Nov. 7 | Hillary Clinton is elected to the Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office | | Nov. 7 | The DEA discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, KS | | Nov. 8 | U.S. presidential election closest in decades; Bush's slim lead in Florida leads to automatic recount in that state | | Dec. 12 | U.S. Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore |
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