国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
2001
Imagine Media announces that it is closing down its online operations, including its online ad network, the Maximum PC Network, and Daily Radar (dailyradar.com), a popular online gaming publication similar to GameSpot and GameSpy. When the Daily Radar was shut down, a notice is left on the website stating, “The internet soufflé has collapsed (you probably read about it in the news), and Daily Radar is no longer publishing.” The notice was accompanied by a humor list of reason why the site was shut down. While Daily Radar was a popular review site, it was often the subject of controversy and criticism, as evidence by its frequently lampooning in the Penny Arcade webcomic.
2002
Indiana State University (ISU) inadvertently posts personal information about ten thousand students who were enrolled in the 1996-97 school year on the Internet, including their names and social security numbers. The information will remain online for two weeks, from April 30 to May 14. The incident was not the result of hacking, and, according to later interviews, no one was disciplined for the mistake, though it does make national headlines.
2004
The Sasser worm begins spreading in the wild, affecting computers running Windows XP or Windows 2000. It’s name comes from from the fact that it exploits a buffer overflow in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) of the operating systems. On May 7, Sven Jaschan, an eighteen year-old German computer science student from Rotenburg, Lower Saxony will be arrested for writing the worm.
2006
Version 4.10 of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, is released. Visit the official Ubuntu website. Code-name: Warty Warthog
2009
Google releases version 1.5 (Cupcake) of the Android mobile operating system. Visit the official Android website.
2009年4月30日，微软今天宣布，发布外界期待已久的最新操作系统Windows 7的RC版本(候选发布版)。
2009年4月30日，美国沃尔特·迪斯尼公司今日宣布与著名的Hulu视频网站达成入股协议，成为Hulu网站的第三大股东。
2010年4月30日，澳大利亚电子邮件服务提供商FastMail.FM今天在公司博客上宣布，该公司已被挪威软件公司Opera收购，随后Opera也发表声明证实了这项交易。
2011年4月30日，微软今天通过Windows Phone开发者官方博客宣布，公司已经发布了一套新的工具，该工具将能够帮助开发者将iPhone应用程序转换至Windows Phone 7平台上来。
