国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
Microsoft, Tele-Communications Inc., and Time Warner Inc. announce a joint venture to develop interactive television software, which may one day allow consumers to bank, shop, and access the internet via televisions on a system designed to “combine the worlds of computing and television and perhaps shape how much of popular culture is delivered.”
2000
The Brazilian website of Allsports.br is hacked by “ANALISTA”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The Brazilian website of Di Santoro Marketing e Propaganda Ltda is hacked by “ANALISTA”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The Brazilian website of Directum Org. de Cobrancas Com is hacked by “ANALISTA”.View an archived version of the defaced website.
The Brazilian website of Instituto Brasileiro de Desenvolvimento do Coop is hacked by “ANALISTA”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The Brazilian website of Igreja Presbiteriana de Vila Maria is hacked by “ANALISTA”.View an archived version of the defaced website.
The Brazilian website of V&F Comercial Ltda is hacked by “ANALISTA”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The Brazilian website of WebAtiva Brazil is hacked by “ANALISTA”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
The Brazilian website of Yes Paper Papelaria e Servicos Ltda is hacked by “ANALISTA”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
Electronic Arts releases the strategy game Shogun: Total War for Windows.
The Japanese video game producer SNK withdraws from the American market.
Nintendo releases the real-time strategy (RTS) game StarCraft for the Nintendo 64 in North America. It is a surrealistic adventure game in which the player must solve various puzzles and follow certain procedures in order for the linear storyline to proceed. It is impossible to die or to get stuck at any moment in the game, allowing users to fully immerse himself in Syberia’s universe without the fear of making amistake or constantly saving the game. Visit the game’s official website. ESRB: T (Teen)
2002
Microïds releases Syberia for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Window.
2003
Atari and JoWood release the role-playing game (RPG) Gothic II, the sequel to Gothic, for Windows in the UK. The game was first released in Germany on November 29, 2002. Visit the game’s official website. ESRB: M (Mature)
Linus Torvalds announces the release of version 2.4.21 of the Linux kernel. New features include support for the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Opteron processor.Visit the official Linux kernel website..
Microsoft announces that it is ceasing all further development of Internet Explorer for Mac. Read more at MacWorld.
2005
The Fedora Project releases the operating system (os) Fedora Core 4, code-named Stentz. According to the software’s release notes, the OS, based on version 2.6.11 of the Linux kernel, is optimized for Pentium 4 processors, but it will run on a machine with as slow a processor as a 400MHz Pentium II or, if a user is willing to work with a text-only interface, a Pentium I. A minimum of 256MB of memory is recommended for the 32-bit x86 version or 512MB for the 64-bit x86 version. In this version, Red Hat introduces Clearlooks as the default theme. Xen, a high performance and secure open source virtualization framework, is also introduced. Visit the official Fedora Project website. Visit the official Xen website.
Nintendo releases the platform game Kirby: Canvas Curse for the Nintendo DS in North America. ESRB: E (Everyone)
2006
Activision and Aspyr release Call of Duty 2 for the Mac OS X. Visit the game’s official website.
Capcom releases Mega Man Battle Network 6 for the Game Boy Advance in North America. ESRB: E (Everyone)
A man named Vincent Ferrari documents his attempt to cancel an AOL account in hisblog, http://insignificantthoughts.com. He recorded the phone conversation in which an AOL representative refused to cancel the account unless Ferrari, age 30, explained why his AOL hours were still active. Ferrari insists that there is no AOL software still installed on the computer. The AOL representative then asks to speak with Ferrari’s father, who had originally set up the account. The conversation will later be aired onCNBC. When CNBC reporters later try to have a different account canceled, they will be hung up on immediately. Still later, AOL will eventually fire the representative to whom Ferrari had spoke.
Namco releases Point Blank for the PlayStation in North America.
Nintendo announces that 136,500 units of the the DS Lite have been sold in the two days since its release in North America and that the system seems to be on schedule to match the 500,000 sold by the original Nintendo DS in its first ten days. Visit the official Nintedo DS website.
2007
Jeffrey Brett Goodin, age 45, of Azusa, California, who became the first person to be convicted by a jury under the CAN-SPAM Act in January is sentenced to seventy month of jail. Goodin was found guilty of posing as a representative of AOL’s Billing Department as part of a phishing scheme.
