国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to supplant the Federal Radio Commission(FRC). The Act specifically forbids the FCC from censoring broadcasts or planned programs and requires broadcasters to give equal air time to candidates running for office during an election. Visit the official FCC website.
1996
America Online (AOL) suffers a software glitch that causes their email system to be inoperable for an hour.
SponsorNet, a Champaign, Illinois advertising-based internet host system, announces its intentions to discontinue operations due to a “shortage of capital.” The company was billed as the “web’s first advertising network” when it was created in the summer of 1995 by founders Luke Nosek, Max Levchin, and Scott Banister.
1997
Jim Woodward, senior vice president of information technology consultants Cap Gemini America, announce that the “Millennium Bug” may actually strike computer systems in 1999 rather than in the year 2000. The Millennium Bug refers to the fact that countless computer clock chips and software applications cannot facilitate a year that cycles past 99 such as in 1999.