| Year |
Event |
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2000 |
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|
2000 |
Computers continue to work and the world doesn't come to an end on
January 1, 2000 as some feared might happen because of the
year 2000 bug. |
|
2000 |
The
Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act becomes effective April 21, 2000. |
|
2000 |
On June
24, 2000 U.S. President Bill Clinton makes the first ever
Presidential webcast among the announcements President Bill Clinton
announces a new web site that
will be able to search all government resources. |
|
2000 |
Y2000- The US
timekeeper (USNO) and a few
other time services around the world report the new year as 19100 on
1 Jan |
|
2000 |
The European Commission contracts with a consortium of 30 national
research networks for the development of
Géant, Europe's
new gigabit research network meant to enhance the current capability
provided by TEN-155 (6 Nov) |
|
2000 |
Internet2
backbone network deploys IPv6 (16 May) |
|
2000 |
A
testbed allowing the registration of
domain names in Chinese, Japanese,
and Korean begins operation on 9 November.
This testbed, created by VeriSign without IETF authorization, only
allows the second-level domain to be non-English, still forcing use
of .com, .net, .org. The Chinese government blocks internal
registrations, stating that registrations in Chinese are its
sovereignty right |
|
2000 |
Emerging Technologies: Wireless devices, IPv6 |
|
2000 |
Viruses of the Year:
Love Letter
(May) To the chagrin of the Internet population, deviant
computer programmers begin designing and circulating viruses with
greater frequency. “Love Bug” and “Stages” are two examples of
self-replicating viruses that send themselves to people listed in a
computer user's email address book. The heavy volume of email
messages being sent and received forces many infected companies to
temporarily shut down their clogged networks. |
|
2000 |
Lawsuits of the Year: Napster, DeCSS |
|
2000 |
Dotcom Implosion -The Internet bubble
bursts, as the fountain of investment capital drives up and the
Nasdaq stock index plunges causing he initial public offering (IPO)
windown to slam shut and many dotcoms to close their doors |
|
2000 |
America Online buys Time-Warner for $16
billion. Its the biggest merger of all time. |
|
2000 |
Mexico's connection to Internet2
becomes fully operational as the California
research network (CalREN-2) is connected with Mexico's Corporación
Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet (CUDI) network. Though
connected in November, the link's inauguration by California's
Governor and Mexico's President was not until March of 2001.
|
|
2001 |
|
|
2001 |
January
1, 2001 - Microsoft announces Windows 95 is now a legacy item and
will no longer be sold or shipped to any more customers. |
|
2001 |
Linus
Torvalds releases version 2.4 of the
Linux
Kernel source code on January 4th. |
|
2001 |
Bill
Gates unveils the Xbox on January 7th 2001. |
|
2001 |
Napster
reaches over 26 million users February 2001. |
|
2001 |
The man who practically invented the Silicon
Valley success story,
Hewlett-Packard
Co. co-founder William Hewlett, dies at his home, he was 87. |
|
2001 |
Chip-making giant
Intel Corp.
has agreed to acquire
Xircom Inc.,
a maker of mobile computing gear, for about $748 million.
|
|
2001 |
Claude
Elwood Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation of modern
information theory while working at Bell Labs in the 1940s, died on
February 24, 2001. He was 85. |
|
2001 |
March
08, AOL
membership surpasses 28 Million. |
|
2001 |
Microsoft releases
Internet
Explorer 6.0 in August 27, 2001. |
|
2001 |
March
09, MacAfee
releases first handheld virus protection software. |
|
2001 |
April
20, Dell
computers becomes the largest PC maker. |
|
2001 |
June 5,
2001, Nevada becomes the first U.S. state to vote to legalize online
gambling. |
|
2001 |
Airlines
begin to implement methods of gaining Internet access while flying. |
|
2001 |
USB 2.0 is
introduced. |
|
2001 |
The first live distributed musical --
The Technophobe & The Madman
-- over Internet2 networks debuts on 20 Feb |
|
2001 |
July 20,
2001 - PC shipments worst since 1986, as only
Dell grows. |
|
2001 |
VeriSign
extends its multilingual domain testbed to encompass various
European languages (26 Feb), and later the full Unicode character
set (5 Apr) opening up most of the world's languages
|
|
2001 |
Forwarding email in Australia becomes illegal with the passing of
the Digital Agenda Act, as it is seen as a technical infringement of
personal copyright (4 Mar) |
|
2001 |
Radio
stations broadcasting over the Web go silent over actor royalty
disputes (10 Apr) |
|
2001 |
High schools in five states
(Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Virginia, and
Washington) become the first to gain
Internet2 access
|
|
2001 |
SETI@Home
launches on 17 May and within four weeks its distributed Internet
clients provide more computing power than the most powerful
supercomputer of its time (:par:) |
|
2001 |
US Dept
of Commerce issues a notice of intent on 6 April to turn over
management for the .edu domain from VeriSign to
Educause. Award agreement is
reached on 29 October. Community colleges will finally be able to
register under .edu |
|
2001 |
Napster keeps finding itself embroiled in litigation and is
eventually forced to suspend
service; it comes back later in the year as a
subscription service . A federal judge rules that Napster
must remain offline until it can prevent copyrighted material from
being shared by its users. |
|
2001 |
European Council finalizes an international
cybercrime treaty on 22 June and adopts it on
9 November. This is the first treaty addressing criminal offenses
committed over the Internet |
|
2001 |
.biz and
.info are added to the root server on 27 June with registrations
beginning in July. .biz domain go live on 7 Nov. |
|
2001 |
GÉANT, the pan-European
Gigabit Research and Education Network, becomes operational (23
Oct), replacing the TEN-155 network which was closed down (30 Nov)
|
|
2001 |
First uncompressed real-time
gigabit HDTV transmission across a wide-area IP network takes
place on Internet2 (12 Nov). |
|
2001 |
Apple
introduces the
iPod. |
|
2001 |
Microsoft
Windows XP home
and professional editions are released October 25, 2001. |
|
2001 |
Emerging Technologies:
Grid Computing,
P2P |
|
2001 |
WikipediaThe popular encyclopedia,
Wikipedia is
founded |
|
2002 |
|
|
2002 |
Excite@Home, one of the largest
ISP's files for bankruptcy and closes its doors March, 02, 2002. |
|
2002 |
PayPal
is acquired by
eBay
on October 3, 2002. |
|
2002 |
The death knell tolls for Napster after
a bankruptcy judge ruled in September that German media giant
Bertelsmann cannot buy the assets of troubled Napster Inc. The
ruling prompts Konrad Hilbers, Napster CEO, to resign and lay off
his staff.Napster
files for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 3, 2002. |
|
2002 |
.Global
Terabit Research Network (GTRN) is
formed composed of two OC-48 2.4GB circuits connecting Internet2
Abiline, CANARIE CA*net3, and GÉANT (18 Feb) |
|
2002 |
Federally recognized US Indian tribes become eligible to register
under .gov (26 Apr) |
|
2002 |
Edsger Dijkstra
passes away August 6, 2002. |
|
2002 |
Hundreds of Internet radio
stations observe a Day of Silence in protest of proposed
song royalty rate increases (1 May) |
|
2002 |
Cartoon
turtle named "Dewie" introduced to help promote Internet safety and
security. |
|
2002 |
Abilene
(Internet2) backbone deploys native IPv6 (5 Aug) |
|
2002 |
Internet2 now has 200 university, 60 corporate, and 40 affiliate
members (2 Sep) |
|
2002 |
Emergence of Blogs |
|
2002 |
Hundreds
of Spain-based web sites take their content offline in protest of a
new law that took effect on 12 Oct requiring all commercial Web
sites to register with the government |
|
2002 |
.A new
US law creates a kids-safe "dot-kids" domain (kids.us) to be
implemented in 2003 (3 Dec) |
|
2002 |
The FBI
teams up with Terras Lycos to disseminate virtual wanted posts
across the Web portal's properties (11 Dec) |
|
2002 |
As of January, 58.5% of the U.S.
population (164.14 million people) uses the Internet. Worldwide
there are 544.2 million users |
|
2003 |
. |
|
2003 |
Skype is a
software program that uses the
internet to make
telephone calls. The software was created by the
Swedish and
Danish
Niklas Zennström and
Janus Friis. It is for
Microsoft Windows (2000,
XP,
Vista and
Windows Mobile),
Mac OS X and
Linux.
By using
VoIP to make the calls, it is very
inexpensive to call another phone. It is free to call another
Skype user. Every Skype user has a unique username which other users
can use to talk with them |
|
2003 |
Supreme
court rules that sex offenders information and pictures can be
posted
online on March 3, 2003. |
|
2003 |
Intel
Pentium
M is introduced in March. |
|
2003 |
Apple Computer introduces Apple iTunes
Music Store, which allows people to download songs for 99 cents
each. |
|
2003 |
Spam, unsolicited email, becomes a
server-clogging menace. It accounts for about half of all emails. |
|
2003 |
The
first computer is infected with the
Spybot
worm on April 16, 2003. |
|
2003 |
The
Mozilla
Foundation is officially formed on July 15, 2003. |
|
2003 |
MySpace
is founded. |
|
2003 |
The
first official Swiss online election takes place in Anières (7 Jan)
|
|
2003 |
The SQL
Slammer worm causes one of the largest and fastest spreading DDoS
attacks ever. Taking roughly 10 minutes to spread worldwide, the
worm took down 5 of the 13 DNS root servers along with tens of
thousands of other servers, and impacted a multitude of systems
ranging from (bank) ATM systems to air traffic control to emergency
(911) systems (25 Jan). This is followed in August by the Sobig.F
virus (19 Aug), the fastest spreading virus ever, and the Blaster (MSBlast)
worm (11 Aug), another one of the most destructive worms ever
|
|
2003 |
Eugene
Kleiner passes away November 20, 2003. |
|
2003 |
Flash
mobs, organized over the Net, start in New York and quickly form in
cities worlwide |
|
2003 |
Taxes
make headlines as: larger US Internet retailers begin collecting
taxes on all purchases; some US states tax Internet bandwidth; and
the EU requires all Internet companies to collect value added tax
(VAT) on digital downloads starting 1 July |
|
2003 |
The
French Ministry of Culture bans the use of the word "e-mail" by
government ministries, and adopts the use of the more French
sounding "courriel" (Jul) |
|
2003 |
The
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sues 261
individuals on 8 Sep for allegedly distributing copyright music
files over peer-to-peer networks |
|
2003 |
Little GLORIAD (Global Ring
Network for Advanced Application Development) starts operations (22
Dec), consisting of a networked ring across the northern hemisphere
with connections in Chicago, Amsterdam, Moscow, Novosibirsk,
Zabajkal'sk, Manzhouli, Beijing, and Hong Kong. This is the
first-ever fiber network connections across the Russia-China border
|
|
2003 |
It's estimated that Internet users
illegally download about 2.6 billion music files each month. |
|
2003 |
Spam, unsolicited email, becomes a
server-clogging menace. It accounts for about half of all emails. In
December, President Bush signs the Controlling the Assault of
Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM Act),
which is intended to help individuals and businesses control the
amount of unsolicited email they receive. |
|
2003 |
Broadband Internet subscriptions grew 48% in this year, and it is
reported that 39% of adult Internet uses have broadband access at
their home |
|
2003 |
Neilson NetRatings’ reports that
the average Web usage in the US was about 36 hours at home and 84
hours at work per month |
|
2004 |
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|
|
2004 |
Google
announces
Gmail on April 1, 2004. |
|
2004 |
Network
Solutions begins offering 100 year domain registration (24 Mar) |
|
2004 |
CERNET2,
the first backbone IPv6 network in China, is launched by the China
Education and Research Network (CERN) connecting 25 universities in
20 cities at speeds of 1-10Gbps (27 Dec) |
|
2004 |
Intel
starts the development of the
BTX form
factor. |
|
2004 |
World of Warcraft
World of
Warcraft is released and becomes the world's most popular video
game (despite it being banned in the fake
Communist China). |
|
2004 |
Godz MinnionzClan
Godz Minnionz, a popular gaming clan is founded. |
|
2004 |
Firefox
1.0 is first introduced on November 9,
2004.former
developers of Netscape & Mosaic |
|
2004 |
IBM sells its
computing division to
Lenovo
Group for $1.75 billion on December 08, 2004 |
|
2004 |
Internet Worm, called MyDoom or Novarg,
spreads through Internet servers. About 1 in 12 email messages are
infected. |
|
2004 |
Online spending reaches a record
high—$117 billion in 2004, a 26% increase over 2003. |
|
2004 |
Rose along with Owen Byrne, Ron
Gorodetzky, and
Jay Adelson, formed
Digg, a
technology news
website that combined
social bookmarking,
blogging,
RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. The website was
officially launched to the public on December 5, 2004.[3][11] |
|
2004 |
Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February
4, 2004 They first spread it to
Stanford,
Dartmouth,
Columbia,
Cornell and
Yale, and then to other schools By the beginning of the summer,
Zuckerberg and Moskovitz had released Facebook at almost forty-five
schools |
|
2005 |
|
|
2005 |
YouTube
is founded and comes online February 15, 2005. |
|
2005 |
Yahoo
announces that it will acquire the popular photo service
Flickr
on March 21, 2005. |
|
2005 |
Lenovo
completes the acquisition of
IBM's
Personal Computing Division. |
|
2005 |
IBM
officially announces on July 14, 2005 that all sales of
OS/2 will
end on December 23, 2005 and that all support from IBM for OS/2 will
end on December 16, 2005. |
|
2005 |
MySpace
is purchased by News Corporation for $580 Million US on July 18,
2005. |
|
2005 |
On
September 12, 2005
eBay
acquired
Skype for approximately $2.6billion. |
|
2005 |
Adobe
completes its acquisition of
Macromedia
on December 3, 2005. |
|
2006 |
|
|
2006 |
.The
blu-ray is
first announced and introduced at the 2006
CES on
January 4,
2006. |
|
2006 |
SS FreeOn June 25, 2006, the
SS Free is
founded and becomes the world's most popular community. |
|
2006 |
On
August 6, 2006
MySpace
announces its 106 millionth account was created. |
|
2006 |
Skype
announced that it had over 100 million registered users. |
|
2006 |
The
GIF
standard and pictures becomes officially free on October 1, 2006. |
|
2006 |
Google
announces plans to purchase
YouTube
for 1.65 Billion on October 9, 2006. |
|
2006 |
AOL announces that they will
give for free virtually every service for which it charged a monthly
fee, with income coming instead from advertising. |
|
2006 |
There are more than 92 million websites
online. |
|
2006 |
Wikipedia
has over six million articles in 250 languages including 1.6 million
in the English-language edition and is ranked among the twelve
most-visited websites worldwide. |
|
2007 |
|
|
2007 |
Apple
introduces the
iPhone
to the public at the January Macworld Conference & Expo. |
|
2007 |
On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced a
Facebook Platform, a development platform for programmers to create
social applications within Facebook. This announcement sparked a
great deal of interest in the developer community. Within weeks,
many applications had been built and some already had millions of
users. Today, there are more than 400,000 developers around the
world building applications for Facebook Platform. |
|
2007 |
Apple
releases the Apple
iPhone
to the public June 29, 2007. |
|
2007 |
Apple surpasses one billion iTunes
downloads. (Feb) |
|
2007 |
Legal online music downloads triple to
6.7 million downloads per week. |
|
2007 |
Colorado Rockies' computer system
crashes when it receives 8.5 million hits within the first 90
minutes of World Series ticket sales |
|
2007 |
The online game, World of Warcraft, hits
a milestone when it surpasses 9 million subscribers worldwide in
July. |
|
2007 |
Jack Dorsey grows interested in the
simple idea of being able to know what is friends were doing. In May
2007 Twitter Incorporated is founded. |
|
2007 |
1.114 billion
people use the Internet according to
Internet
World Stats. (March) |
|
2007 |
Search engine giant Google surpasses
Microsoft as "the most valuable global brand," and also is the most
visited Web site. (April) |
|
2008 |
|
|
2008 |
In a move to challenge Google's
dominance of search and advertising on the Internet, software giant
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. The acquisition is
unsuccessful |
|
2008 |
Microsoft is fined $1.3 billion by the
European Commission for further abusing its dominant market
position, and failing to comply to their 2004 judgment, which
ordered Microsoft to give competitors information necessary to
operate with Windows. Since 2004, Microsoft has been fined a total
of $2.5 billion by the Commission for not adhering to their ruling.
|
|
2008 |
In a San Fransisco federal district
court, Judge Jeffrey S. White orders the disabling of Wikileaks.org,
a Web site that discloses confidential information. The case was
brought by Julius Baer Bank and Trust, located in the Cayman
Islands, after a disgruntled ex-employee allegedly provided
Wikileaks with stolen documents that implicate the bank in asset
hiding, money laundering, and tax evasion. Many web communities, who
see the ruling as unconstitutional, publicized alternate addresses
for the site and distributed bank documents through their own
networks. In response, Judge White issues another order to stop the
distribution of bank documents. |
|
2008 |
Apple
introduces its latest line of Apple
iMac
computers on August 28, 2008. |
|
2008 |
Joost
today launched its new Flash-based, download-free global web video
service at www.joost.com. In
addition, Joost features a number of social tools which are designed
to help people navigate through the largest online library of legal
video programming and to integrate user expression directly into the
service. |
| 2008 |
Google still innovating on 10th anniversary |
| 2008 |
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|
2009 |
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|
2009 |
April 29, 2009 - Internet2 members
attending their Spring Member Meeting in Arlington, Virginia,
witnessed how leading- edge “telepresence” technology can be
harnessed to advance important telehealth initiatives. The
demonstration, developed by Internet2 and the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs, connected a local psychiatrist with a remotely
located “wounded warrior” veteran patient for a simulated
psychiatric diagnosis session. The demonstration represented the
first Cisco TelePresence session held over the Internet2 Network |
|
2009 |
Universities Angle for Billions to Build
Obama's New Broadband Network Several higher-education
information-technology groups are now working to influence the
national broadband strategy through private conversations with
agency officials and a
white paper, "Unleashing Waves of Innovation: Transformative
Broadband for America's Future," filed with the NTIA. |
|
2009 |
TR10: Intelligent Software Assistant
Adam Cheyer is leading the design of powerful
software that acts as a personal aide.The initial version, to be
released this year, will be aimed at mobile users and will perform
only specific types of functions, such as helping make reservations
at restaurants, check flight status, or plan weekend activities.
Users can type or speak commands in casual sentences, and the
software deciphers their intent from the context
|
|
2009 |
Adobe releases Air 1.0. Kevin Lynch, chief software architect at
Adobe,
talks about a new generation of Web applications that will allow
users to shift easily between private data stored on the desktop and
public data stored on the Web. He also looks ahead five and ten
years to possible future technologies. |
|
2009 |
Targeted advertising has
proved hugely successful for online businesses. Google makes its
billions through the
AdWords system, which allows advertisers to place their messages
alongside search results, blogs entries, or e-mails containing
certain keywords. Companies have, however,
struggled to find effective ways to
use social-media sites like
Facebook to
serve ads that are targeted to users' demographics and tastes.
BuzzLogic targets ads to particular sites by focusing on social
activity that suits a particular ad campaign. |
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