国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
1994
The first meeting of the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts .The W3C was founded by Albert Vezza and Tim Berners-Lee to development and maintain international standards for the World Wide Web . Visit the organization's official website .
1997
Seven websites are hacked by “Newport” and “L|\Z”. View an archived version of the message left on all seven sites.
Three websites, including Diversified Data Systems and Sarah Lawrence College are hacked and defaced by “Claire Danes”. View an archived version of the message left on all three sites.
Monica Gilmore of Free-PC sends an email to Free-PC registrants announcing that Free-PC has merged with eMachines. The merger means that the free computer program has been discontinued in favor of eMachines’ successful pattern of sellingeconomical computers through established retail channels.
Sega of America and Excite@Home announces a partnership to build Sega’s Dreamcast Network, an Internet gaming portal.
Yahoo! launches Yahoo! Pets.
2000
PC Data releases a report detailing the results of a study conducted by the firm that indicates that while males comprise approximately fifty-five percent of all gamers, the majority of online gamers are female. The study reveals that women prefer online gambling, card games, and trivia games while men prefer war, sports, and first-person shooting games. The study, entitled Spotlight on Games: Categories and Hardware, utilizes a variety of data sourced from PC Data’s complete offering of retail sales tracking, Internet audience measurement, software usage tracking, hardware configuration, and a custom survey. Read more at Games First.
2002
Version 1.0 of the CRUX Linux operating system is released. CRUX is a i686-optimized Linux distribution intended for experienced Linux users. Visit the system’s official website.
2004
Google announces plans to digitize and index the book collections of five major libraries, including the Harvard, New York Public Library, Oxford, Stanford, andUniversity of Michigan, with an emphasis on books published before 1900.
2005
An article published in the journal Nature reveals the results of a study that compared the accuracy of the highly regarded Encyclopedia Britannica with that of the collaborative internet encyclopedia Wikipedia through a process of peer review. The review, based on forty-two scientific articles reviewed by experts, found that the average scientific entry in Wikipedia contains four errors or omissions, while the entries in the Britannica contain three. Reviewers also found four egregious errors among the articles from both of the two sources. The surprising article comes in response to several Britannica officials’ public criticism of Wikipedia’s quality. Read more at MSNBC.
Belarusian lawmakers pass legislation cracking down on Internet dating and onlinespouse searches in a series of stringent government controls backed by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
2009年12月14日，网址缩略服务Bit.ly宣布推出专业版服务，该版本将拥有更好的分析功能和定制化的短网址。
2010年12月14日，英国伦敦一家法庭14日在举行听证会后决定，同意“维基揭秘”网站创始人朱利安·阿桑奇的保释申请。
2011年12月14日晚间消息，雅虎今日宣布，已完成对纽约网络广告科技公司InterClick的要约收购。
2011年12月14日，美国社交网络公司Tagged宣布该公司已经收购了社交游戏公司hi5，这使Tagged每月活跃用户数量一举翻了一番，达到了2000万人次。
2011年12月14日，微软宣布推出iPhone版SkyDrive服务。SkyDrive提供云存储和文档协作等功能。
2012年12月14日，阿尔卡特-朗讯今日称已经获得瑞士信贷和高盛21.2亿美元(16.2亿)欧元新融资。这将为该家正深陷亏损的电子通讯设备公司重返盈利赢得更多时间。
2012年12月14日，甲骨文今天宣布，已经收购大数据分析云软件公司DataRaker。
2012年12月14日，纽约劳工权益保护组织“中国劳工观察”今日发布报告称，该组织已发现证据表明，三星供应商深圳市赫那罗国际货运代理有限公司存在雇佣未成年童工及其他滥用行为。
2012年12月14日，谷歌今日宣布将关闭多个产品，包括用于在设备之间同步数据的一些服务。如Google Sync、Google Calendar Sync、Google Sync for Nokia S60以及SyncML都将被关闭。
2012年12月14日，网络设备厂商Juniper今天宣布，以1.76亿美元的价格收购创业公司Contrail Systems。而Contrail两天前才正式运营。
2012年12月14日，索尼今日宣布，已与新加坡智能卡专业公司Watchdata(握奇数据)签署合作协议，从2013年开始，索尼的FeliCa非接触式技术将与Watchdata的SIMpass的解决方案相整合。
2012年12月14日，纳斯达克市场今日宣布，除了刚刚被Facebook取代的Infosys外，Netflix和RIM也将于12月24日被剔出纳斯达克100指数。
2012年12月14日，微软今天发布了必应桌面1.1版，支持从Windows XP开始的所有版本Windows。通过该版本应用，Windows用户将可以在不离开桌面的情况下进行搜索。
