国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
The first outdoor television transmission is made by John Logie Baird from the roof of his house at 133 Long Acre, London. The broadcast features actor Jack Buchanan.
1991 CERN在日内瓦召开关于WWW的研讨会。WWW技术是由瑞士高能物理研究实验室（CERN）的程序设计员Tim Berners-Lee最先开发的，它的主要功能是采用一种超文本格式（hypertext）把分布在网上的文件链接在一起。这样，用户可以很方便地在大量排列无序的文件中调用自己所需的文件。
1996 《通信规范法案》在联邦法院受阻。美国国会在1996年和1998年分别通过了《传播法案》和《互联网儿童保护法案》，但却被联邦法院以违反《第一修正案》而否决。一些政治家和家长们在大力宣传过滤软件的应用，以此来保护儿童在上网时不受X图片及其它事情内容的腐蚀。法律面对网络色情到底能起到多大的作用呢？网络色情难道是法律的盲区吗？由于网络的国际化，因此我们看到抵御色情网站的传播是一个全球的工程。
1996
A Philadelphia district court declares the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) unconstitutional in a challenge filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), theElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and seventeen other organizations. The law was the first attempt by Congress to regulate pornographic content online. On June 26, 1997, the Supreme Court upheld the Philadelphia court’s decision in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union.
1997
3Com Corp. and U.S. Robotics Corp. finalize their merger in the largest business deal in the history of the networking industry. 3Com CEO Eric Benhamou explained the merger, saying that, “The combination of 3Com and U.S. Robotics creates a networking powerhouse in the continuing development of enterprise and carrier networks, while helping usher in a new era of simple, fast network access for small businesses and consumers.”
3Com CEO Eric Benhamou
Dragon Systems releases the first version of its speech-recognition program, NaturallySpeaking. The software features a vocabulary of thirty thousand words. The company’s previous product, DragonDictate, was previously released for DOS systems; however, it had severe technical limitations. Specifically, DragonDictate had significant difficulty discerning one word from another in the course of natural speech. NaturallSpeaking is the company’s first continuous dictation product, and it will go on to become the first popular speech-recognition software for consumers. Price: US$695
The GNU 0.2 operating system is released. Visit the official GNU website.
2001
The U.S. cable television network TNTairs the first episode of its two season run of the Witchblade series. The last of the twenty-four episodes is aired on August 26, 2002. The series is based on the Top Cow comic book series of the same name.
2002
Intel releases the Celeron 1.8 processor with a 1800MHz speed and a 128KB L2-cache.
2003
Video game developer Obsidian Entertainment is founded. The company will go on to produce such games as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (KotOR II) and Neverwinter Nights 2.
2006
The persistent-world massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (mmorpg) Eve Online is released in China. Visit the game’s official English website.
GameSpot reports that major online retailers, as well as several major brick-and-mortar retailer have sold out of the Nintendo DS Lites, which was released only the previous day, on June 11.
2007
The Bittorrent index website Mininova serves its two billionth .torrent file. Visit the official Mininova website.
