国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant open The WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link) online service, one of the first online communities, to the public with only a brief notice in theWhole Earth Review. Brilliant, a physician and head of Network Technologies Int’l. in Michigan, proposed the idea for a public computer conferencing system to Brand, the publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. The WELL, which runs on PicoSpan conferencing software, is the result. Not only will the community (which begins as adial-up bulletin board system (BBS)) achieve many historic first, it will have a far-reaching impact on the culture of the internet, which is still in it infancy. By the end of 1987, WELL will have over two thousand users. Read more about The Well in Howard Rheingold’s 1993 book The Virtual Community.
David Smith of New Jersey is arrested for allegedly disseminating the Melissa virus, which infected over a million computers worldwide and caused more than US$80 million in damage. He will later serve twenty months in federal prison in exchange for helping the FBI track authors of other computer viruses.
Google launches Gmail, a free webmail and POP3 email service, as an invitation-only beta. The launch is initially met with wide-spread skepticism due to Google’s long-standing tradition of April Fool’s jokes. Gmail differs from other services in that it ran as smoothly as any desktop application, largely thanks to the use of Ajax in its interface. The service offers one gigabyte of storage capacity, an unprecedented capacity for a major email provider, and it will quickly become know for its phenomenally effective spam filters. The service will be opened to the public on February 7, 2007. Within months of going public, Gmail will inspire hundreds of major sites to implement Ajax into their own, establishing Ajax as the defacto standard for interactive websites. Visit the official GMail website.Google doubles the storage space available to the users of its email service, Gmail, to two gigabytes to commemorate the anniversary of the service’s launch.
2006
Google files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, stating that the 5.3 million shares of Class A common stock that will be sold during its initial public offering (IPO) will be priced at US$389.75 per share. The estimated net proceeds of the IPO will be approximately US$2.065 billion. In the same filing, the company’s co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and its chief executive, Eric Schmidt, state that they will continue to maintain their one dollar annual salaries in 2006 and forgo all bonuses.
2009
The European Union Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) goes into effect in Sweden. The law allows copyright holders to force internet service providers to reveal the names of users whose IP addresses are identified as having been involved in sharing copyrighted material, such as movies and music, without permission. The same day that the law goes into effect, internet traffic drops by an average of 80 to 120Gbps or roughly 33% nationwide, presumably due to a sudden cessation of filesharing among a very large section of Swedish citizens. Prior to the passage of the directive, it was estimated that roughly eight percent of the nation’s population and approximately two million computers were involved in filesharing in Sweden. The Swedish parliament voted to implement the Directive on February 26, 2009. Read more at the BBC.
2009年4月1日，在线旅游服务提供公司e龙今天宣布，任命迈克·道尔担任该公司CFO，4月1日生效。道尔从2004年12月起担任e龙董事会成员。
2009年4月1日，一向在新媒体技术上引领潮流的英国《卫报》今天宣布，该报将成为世界上首家在社交网站Twitter上发行的报纸。
2009年4月1日，Palm在Web 2.0展会上向“大量开发人员”展示了Mojo开发工具包，希望他们能够为WebOS平台开发大量应用软件。
2009年4月1日，为吸引现金短缺的小企业并拓展新兴市场，微软今天推出了最新超低价版Windows Server。
2010年4月1日，苹果今日正式推出了面向iPad的应用商店，目前共有2300多款iPad应用可供选择，并还在不断添加中。
2011年4月1日，诺基亚今天通过Symbian官方博客宣布正式开放Symbian系统的源代码，这意味着所有公司及个人开发者都可以无条件的获得该代码使用权。
2011年4月1日，电气与电子工程师协会(IEEE)今天批准IEEE 802.16m成为下一代WiMax标准，该标准可支持超过300Mbps的下行速率。
2013年4月1日，索尼电脑娱乐公司今天在官方网站上宣布，已将日本分部与亚洲分部合并，组建成的新的“索尼电脑娱乐日本及亚洲部门”。
