国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
ZDNet publishes an article entitled “A Brief History of Cyberspace” in which author Mark Pesce writes, “There are two ages of the Internet – before Mosaic, and after. The combination of Tim Berners-Lee’s Web protocols, which provided connectivity, and Marc Andreesen’s browser, which provided a great interface, proved explosive. In twenty-four months, the Web has gone from being unknown to absolutely ubiquitous.”
A University of Texas student hacks into the school’s computers and steals information on thirty-seven thousand students and employees.
2004年10月15日，德克萨斯大学的一名学生攻击进入学校的电脑，窃取了三万七千名学生和雇员的信息。
2005
The number of files shared on the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing network reaches an estimated 54 petabtyes (PB) or 54,000,000 gigabytes (GB). Visit official Kazaa website.
2007
Internet addresses began resolving in eleven languages that don’t use the Roman alphabet.
On the Official Google Blog, YouTube product manager David King announces the release of YouTube Video Identification, a tool to help copyright holders identify works being shared on YouTube and choose what they want done with them that would go “above and beyond our legal responsibilities.” While the tool goes a long way towards easing Google’s legal issues in regard to the site, the automated tool will come under heavy criticism in January 2009 after Warner Music Group uses it to remove massive numbers of videos whose use should have fallen under Fair Use. Read the original post.
Microsoft releases the final version of Windows Live Home web portal. Visit the official Home website.
Netscape Communications releases the final version of Netscape Navigator, version 9.0. Support for the browser will be discontinued on March 1, 2008. Visit the official Netscape.com home page.
2009
Finland becomes the first country in the world to declare Internet broadband access a legal right with the introduction of legislation that will require telecommunication providers across the country to provide all 5.2 million citizens with an Internet connection of at least one megabit per second effective July 1st with a goal of reaching universal speeds of up to one hundred megabits per second by 2015. The move comes just months after France’s highest court, the Constitutional Council, struck down the nation’s controversial “three strikes” anti-piracy law, ruling that “The internet is a fundamental human right that cannot be taken away by anything other than a court of law, only when guilt has been established there.” Laura Vilkkonen, the legislative counselor for the Ministry of Transport and Communications, tells the press “We think it’s something you cannot live without in modern society. Like banking services or water or electricity, you need Internet connection.”
Google announces that it will launch a new online service for booksellers next year called Google Editions, which will let readers buy books and read them on mobile devices.
2012年10月15日，日本软银宣布，将以约201亿美元收购美国第三大移动运营商Sprint Nextel 70%的股份。
2012年10月15日，全球领先的信息与通信解决方案供应商华为，携一系列最新产品和解决方案，参加在阿联酋迪拜举办的海湾地区最具影响力的ICT展—— GITEX展。
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2012年10月15日，Facebook公布了其全球编程马拉松(hackathon)大赛的比赛结果：来自全球的三支技术开发团队胜出。
这三支胜出的技术开发团队分别为：来自中国台北的Paperclip.io团队，布宜诺斯艾利斯的Unchained开发者团队，以及莫斯科的BoostMate团队。
2012年10月15日，微软开始在全美播放首条Surface电视广告。
2012年10月15日，新加坡国会通过个人信息保护法案，禁止向个人发送市场推广类短信等垃圾信息，违法发送垃圾信息的机构或个人可能会被重罚100万新元(约合514万元人民币)。
2012年10月15日，Facebook在监管文件中表示，将把一笔30亿美元的信贷额度减半至15亿美元，该公司计划利用这一信贷额度为员工行使的限售股支付税款。
