国内大事记编辑本段回目录
2010年12月8日，优酷（Youku.com）正式在美国纽交所上市，股票代码YOKU，融资2.33亿美元。上市当日优酷股票大涨161%，成为继百度之后五年来美国股市上市当日涨幅最高的股票。上市当日收盘报33.44美元，以此价格计算，优酷网市值35.24亿美元，位列腾讯、百度、阿里巴巴、网易、新浪之后成为中国第六大互联网公司。
2011年12月8日，由《互联网周刊》主办的“2011中国互联网经济论坛”于今日在北京开幕。
2011年12月8日，百度文库今日进行了首页改版，原先提供正版数字阅读资源的文库书店从百度文库中分离出来“变身”为百度阅读(yuedu.baidu.com)。
2012年12月8日，中国移动四川公司在成都宣布，四川在中西部率先开通4G(TD—LTE)网络，同时宣布四川移动客户超过5000万。成都成为继杭州、深圳、广州、南京等城市后，开通4G网络的又一城市。
2012年12月8日，中国版“慈善午餐”拍卖——优米网的“名人时间拍卖”今年是第三次举办，12月8日，史玉柱的3小时最终拍出213.0915万元天价。
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
1991
Martin Pollard, author of the Telegard Bulletin Board System, announces that development of the software will be discontinued. He cites multiple reasons, including a mistreatment by the community and an inability to shake the image of being a “Pirate BBS.” Telegard also stops using Fidonet and joins the USTGNet network, which will later become the ITCnet.
1997
A group of computer hackers break into Yahoo! servers and deface the portal’s homepage. The hackers, who called themselves the “Pantz – h4gis Alliance,” post a message that states, “For the past month, anyone who has viewed Yahoo’s page and used their search engine, now has a logic bomb/worm implanted deep within their computer.” The message states that the federal government will be notified of the location of the malicious code and an counter program upon the immediate release ofKevin Mitnick, who was once listed as the world’s most wanted computer hacker by the FBI. Mitnick, who has been in prison since 1995, allegedly stole thousands of credit card numbers by breaking into an Internet service provider’s web server. A Yahoo! spokesperson will later state that the company learned of the message within minutes of its posting and that the website was restored within fifteen minutes. The threat turns out to be an empty one, as no such virus will ever be found. View an archived version of the defaced website.
Yahoo! launches Yahoo! Sports.
1998
The NonStop-UX C51 Unix operating system was released.
Version 2 (v1.2) of the Java programming language is released. Visit the language’s official website.
1998年12月8日，旧金山停电，那些没有在旧金山以外建立镜像的节点断线。
1999
The website of Film World is hacked by “#Hack-org”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of Fight Club Germany is hacked by “kryptek”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
Yahoo! is added to the S&P 500 index, replacing transportation service provider Laidlaw (LDW).
2000
The top cyberspace official of the United States National Security Council, Richard A. Clarke, warns the nation that several other nations have created information-warfare units for disrupting computer networks.
2001
Federal prosecutors accuse one time Los Alamos National Laboratory employee Jerome Heckenkamp of breaking into Qualcomm and half a dozen other corporatecomputer systems including eBay Inc. and E*Trade Inc., over a nine-month period using the handle “MagicFX” while he was a student.
2005
Yahoo! launched a beta version of its Yahoo! Answers service. The service allows users to submit questions to the community and answer the questions posed by other users in order to earn points. The system is based on the Naver Knowledge Search. By December 14, 2009, Yahoo! Answers will have 200 million users worldwide. Visit the official Yahoo! Answers website.
2006
Internet security firm McAfee makes national headlines by reporting on the growing trend of organized gangs employing “KGB-style” tactics by employing college computer students to commit Internet crime.
2007
Grupo Carso, the Mexican conglomerate that acquired the CompUSA retail chain in 2000, announces that the remaining 103 locations will either be liquidated or sold. In January, Systemax will acquire the CompUSA.com ecommerce site.
2010年12月8日，Salesforce宣布，将以2.49亿美元收购私营云平台Heroku公司，从而拓展云计算相关的社交和移动应用。
2011年12月8日，IBM周四宣布，将以4.4亿美元的现金收购美国加州分析软件供应商DemandTec。
2011年12月8日，亚马逊今日宣布，已创建一个名为“KDP Select”的基金，以一种全新的方式让独立作家和出版商从中受益。
2011年12月8日，谷歌今天针对Google+社交网络推出了新的面部识别工具“Find My Face”。
2011年12月8日，谷歌今天发布了电子杂志移动应用Google Currents，支持Android和iOS平台。
