1994
Netscape Communications serves notice of its lawsuit against Spyglass and the University of Illinois.
1996
Sony makes “emergency shipments” of PlayStation video game consoles into the United States to meet holiday demand.
The website of Finance Net is hacked by “vmm”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
1997
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, receives the 1997 Nokia Foundation Award, which supports “the development of scientific competence and educational capabilities of information and telecommunications technologies in Finland.” Read the original press release.
The Head to Head Training and Consults website is hacked and defaced by “CyberToast”, a member of the group “cArPaRtS nInJa TaSk FOrc3″.
The Inphar BV website is hacked and defaced by “CyberToast”, a member of the group “cArPaRtS nInJa TaSk FOrc3″. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The John Reilly Signs website is hacked and defaced by “CyberToast”, a member of the group “cArPaRtS nInJa TaSk FOrc3″. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The Oregon Department of Forestry website is hacked and defaced by “CyberToast”, a member of the group “cArPaRtS nInJa TaSk FOrc3″. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of Dragonserve Ltd. is hacked and defaced by the group “cArPaRtS nInJa TaSk FOrc3″. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The website of OneTouch, Inc. is hacked and defaced by “Claire Danes”.
The website of Plumas Sierra, a California ISP is hacked by “404″. View an archived version of the defaced website.
1999
The website of the U.S. Embassy in Belgium is hacked by “PHC”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
2000
Jack S. Kilby is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the microchip. Zhores Alferov of Russia and Herbert Kroemer of UC Santa Barbara share the prize for their work on heterostructure semiconductors.
2001
Larry Roberts is quoted in an article in Forbes magazine as saying that, “Net traffic will quadruple in 2001.”
The website of the United States General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of the United States Congress, is hacked by Anti India Crew (AIC). The AIC is part of a hacking coalition calling itself the Al-Qaeda Muslim Alliance whose other members include the GForce Pakistan hacking group and the Pakistan Hackerz Club. In recent months, AIC has attacked twenty-eight websites in India, but the GAO servers are the first U.S. government systems compromised by the group.
2002
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) releases the 2000MHz Athlon MP 2400+ featuring a 256KB Level-2 Cache and a 266MHz Front-Side Bus.
Version 7.01 of the Netscape Internet suite is released. Download an archived version of the application. Visit the application’s official website.
2003
The U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee launched an inquiry into the prices and accessibility of scientific journals, including the question whether the government should support open-access journals.
2005
Microsoft launches the Xbox 360 video game system in Japan. The system features an IBM PowerPC CPU with three 3.2GHz cores, a 500MHz ATI graphics card with a 10MB cache, and 512MB RAM. The Xbox 360 is the first console with the ability to use wireless controllers out of the box. The system is available in three versions: a “Core” version for ¥29,000, a “Premium” Version for ¥39,795, and an “Elite” version for ¥47,800. The biggest difference between these versions is the addition of a 20GB hard drive in the “Premium” edition, a 120GB hard drive and HDMI in the “Elite” edition, and a specially designed case in the Halo edition. Code-name: Xenon
2006
NASA launches the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center in the first night launch since the failed 2003 Columbia mission. (STS-116) During the mission, which will carry the Shuttle to the International Space Station, Christer Fuglesang becomes the first Swede in go into space.
Version 4.00 of the PureBasic programming language is released for Amiga. Visit the language’s official website.
2008
The Hearst Digital Media property CosmoGirl.com releases the results of a survey conducted by the Chicago-based market research firm Teenage Research Unlimited in cooperation with The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy reveals that twenty-two percent of teenage girls and eighteen percent of teenage boys have electronically transmitted nude or semi-nude photos of themselves, mostly to romantic interests but also with alarming frequency to people they knew only through the internet. In the older demographic, young adults ages twenty to twenty-six, those numbers rose dramatically, with thirty-six percent of young women and thirty-one percent of young men having transmitted nude or semi-nude photos of themselves to someone electronically. The same survey reveals that as many as forty percent of the teens surveyed confessed to posting sexually suggestive messages online, even while seventy-five percent recognized that sending sexual content could “have serious negative consequences.” Read a summary of the study online.
Version 12.2 of the Slackware Linux distribution is released. Visit the official Slackware website.
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