国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
1993
Rusty & Edie’s BBS of Boardman, Ohio, is raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly distributing copyrighted software programs. The FBI seize computers, hard drives, and telecommunications equipment along with financial records. The raid is the result of an on-going collaboration with the Software Publishers Association (SPA), which initiated the investigation after receiving complaints from a number of SPA members that their software was being illegally distributed on thebulletin board system (BBS). Before the raid dismantled it, Rusty & Edie’s was one of the largest private bulletin boards in the U.S. with one hundred twenty-four nodes and over fourteen thousand subscribers calling it at a rate of over four thousand connections a day. In all, the BBS had logged over 3.4 million phone calls from its in 1987 up to the time of the raid. The system includes a staggering nineteen gigabytes of storage holding over a hundred thousand files available to download. Read more about Rusty & Edie’s at Textfiles.com. Visit the official website of the Software Publishers Association.
Yahoo! launches Yahoo! Singapore.
1998年1月30日，美国商业部(DoC)发布绿皮书，概述了DNS系统私有化的计划。6月5日又发布白皮书。
1998
The website of All Seasons Travel is hacked by “Claire Danes”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of the Calagary Unix Users Group is hacked by “sreality & th4 #pascal crew”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
1999
The website of the Belgian ISP Interline is hacked by “|ndig00, f0bic & jay”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
2000
An unprecedented number of advertisements for Internet companies air during Super Bowl XXXIV. Some of the advertisements cost as much as US$3 million for a thirty-second spot. Among the advertisers are Angeltips.com, AutoTrader.com, Britannica.com, Computer.com, DowJones.com, E-Trade, HotJobs.com, Kforce.com, LastMinuteTravel.com, LifeMinders.com, Monster.com, Netpliance.com, OnMoney.com, OurBeginning.com, Pets.com, Screamingmedia.com, and WebMD.
The website of CCPM in Mexico is hacked by “alt3kx_h3z”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
2001
Amazon.com announces its intentions to cut up to 1,300 jobs or about fifteen percent of its work in the hope of turning a profit by the end of the year. Visit the official Amazon.com website.
Per Lidén and the CRUX Linux community release version 0.5.1 of the CRUX operating system. CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution for advanced Linux users. Visit the official CRUX website.
Yahoo! releases Yahoo! Groups. The service will eventually grow into the world’s largest collections of online discussion boards. By August 2008, the Groups will have 113 million users worldwide and 9 million individual groups. Visit the official website of Yahoo! Groups.
2002
The top-level domain (TLD) .coop opens for registration. Visit the official website of the .coop registrar.
Version 2.5.3 of the Linux operating system is released. Visit the official Linux website.
2006
The SeaMonkey Council releases version 1.0 of the SeaMonkey cross-platform internet suite. The suite includes a browser based on Netscape, an HTML editor, a mail client, and a newsgroup client. Visit the official website of the SeaMonkey Project.
2007
Microsoft announced that the 113 titles available for the Xbox Live Arcade on the Xbox 360 have been downloaded over twenty million times. Visit the official Xbox Live Arcade website.
2008
An underwater in the Mediterranean Sea is severed, dramatically slowing Internet access across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and a number of Middle Eastern nations. In the weeks to follow, four more underwater cables were cut, causing Iran to loose all access to the Internet. The incident, which will receive a great deal of media coverage, highlights the fragile nature of the world’s internet infrastructure.
2010
Amazon.com removes both electronic and print editions of all titles from MacMillanpublishing from its website in a dispute over the pricing of books sold for Amazon’s Kindle reader. At issue is the question of whether or not publishers have the right to control the price of e-books sold through the site, which has established a standard price of US$9.99 for Kindle e-books.
