国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
Col Needham and some of his friends launches the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), as the “rec.arts.movies movie database.” The site, which will grow into one of the most visited websites on the internet, initially begins as a collection of Unix shell scripts that can be used to search four lists: an “Actors List,” an “Actress List,” a “Directors List,” and a “Dead Actors/Actresses List.” By the end of the year, the lists will include nearly ten thousand movies and television series. Visit the official IMDB website.
Megan Meier, age 13, of Missouri commits suicide by hanging herself in her bedroom closet after receiving a series of harassing messages through the MySpace social network. Megan had been under the care of a psychiatrist since third grade forattention deficit disorder and depression. In 2008, Lori Drew, age 49, of Missouri will be indicted for bullying the teen using a fake account to pose as a sixteen year-old boy named “Josh Evans.” Drew will later be acquitted of of three felony counts of accessing computers without authorization to inflict emotional harm and convicted of only three minor offenses. On May 22, 2008, Congresswoman Linda T. Sanchez will introduce H.R. 6123 as the “Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act” in Megan’s honor to amend title 18 of the United States Code to criminalize the use of the internet for harassment.
Registered sex offender Andrew Lubrano, age 39, is arrested on charges of sexual misconduct by the New York Suffolk County Police Department for using MySpace to associate minors after three prior arrests for sexual offenses. The arrest is accomplished with a thousand-line Perl script written by former hacker Kevin Poulsenthat located over seven hundred registered sex offenders listed online under Megan’s Law actively using MySpace. Following extensive coverage by Wired magazine, for which Poulsen works as an editor, the code will be published under an open-source license. Read more at Wired.com.
2007
Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, announces the launch of Citizendium, a “progressive fork” of Wikipedia emphasizing original articles and featuring author attribution and expert peer review. The goal of the project is to create a more reliable free online encyclopedia. In the official press release, Sanger says that Citizendium “will soon attempt to unseat Wikipedia as the go-to destination for general information online,” explaining that “The world needs a more credible free encyclopedia.” The project was first announced by Sanger on September 15, 2006, at the Wizards of OS 4 conference in Berlin. The pilot project will go into operation October 23, 2006. The site will open to the public on March 25, 2007.Read the official press release. Visit the official Citizendium website.
2012年10月17日，美国市场研究公司Strategy Analytics发布的最新数据显示，今年第三季度全球智能手机保有量突破10亿大关，达到10.38亿部。虽然整整16年才实现这一里程碑，但分析师认为，下一个10亿或许只需3年就将实现。
谷歌CEO拉里·佩奇2012年10月17日，谷歌CEO拉里·佩奇(Larry Page)在美国亚利桑那州举行的Zeitgeist大会上发表演讲，讲述了谷歌在处理反垄断指控方面的进展，并谈到了谷歌地图被苹果抛弃的问题。
2012年10月17日，亚马逊创始人兼CEO杰夫·贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)在接受英国报纸《Metro》采访时表示，政府应当采取行动，阻止消费科技市场的专利诉讼大战，例如苹果与三星之间的纠纷。
2012年10月17日，Twitter宣布收购移动应用开发技术提供商Cabana，从而加强该公司的应用开发能力。
2012年10月17日，奥巴马与罗姆尼的第二场总统大选辩论吸引了720万条Twitter消息，远低于第一场的1030万条，但峰值消息发送量仍然高达每分钟11万条。
2012年10月17日，微软宣布，将于11月份推出支持Windows 7系统的IE 10浏览器。
2012年10月17日，美国专利与商标局今日公布了苹果最新获得的一系列专利，其中包括NFC替代技术、位置服务和数码相机等相关技术专利。
