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The internet service provider (ISP) Prodigy announces that it has 100,000 subscribers in households in eight major metro areas. Visit Prodigy’s official website.
Quantum Link (Q-Link), an online service for e-mail, games, news, and shopping onCommodore 64 and 128 computers, announces that it will withdraw from the Commodore market. Past subscribers are offered memberships on the new America Online (AOL) service.
Alternic founder Eugene Kashpureff is arrested in Toronto, Canada on wirefraud charges brought by the US for hijacking the URL of the InterNIC registry website and redirecting its traffic to his own Alternic website July 11 – 14, 1997 to protest Network Solutions’ monopoly on the domain name system. Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), which runs the InterNIC, took Kashpureff to court in August, but the case was settled. Kashpureff apologized to the Internet community and tried to help inform it how to prevent someone else from perpetrating the same kind of domain name hijacking. NSI turned the case over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), dissatisfied with the outcome of its civil suit. The news of Kashpureff’s arrest shocks many. Richard Sexton, who worked with Kashpureff on the AlterNIC but disagreed with the actions he took, will later release a statement in which he says, “The most you could have lost is two seconds and one mouse-click. It is fraud, but the fiscal damage amounts to zero. He should be found guilty and fined a dollar.” Many will later characterize the protest as an act of civil disobedience. Visit the Wayback Machine archive of AlterNIC.net.Visit Eugene Kashpureff’s personal website.
Opera Software releases version 6.1 of the Opera web browser for FreeBSD. It is the first version to be released for FreeBSD.
2005
Apple Computer announces that it has sold one million videos through its iTunes Storein the nineteen days since it began offering videos October 12th. iTunes offers approximately two thousand videos, including animation, music videos, and popular network programing for US$1.99 per video. Steve Jobs comments that, “Selling one million videos in less than twenty days strongly suggests there is a market for legal video downloads,” in the statement announcing the milestone. “Our next challenge is to broaden our content offerings so that customers can enjoy watching more videos on their computers and new iPods.” Visit the official iTunes website.
2006
Version 3.0.8 (“Feynman”) of the Scientific Linux operating system is released. Visit the system’s official website.
2008
Jason Scott Sadofsky marks the tenth anniversary of Textfiles.com, a website devoted to archiving and documenting the history of the bulletin board system (BBS) communities that were the forerunners of the modern internet. The site has cataloged roughly sixty thousand text files documenting the era of the BBS, and each month, the site boasts approximately one hundred fifty thousand unique visitors. To commemorate the anniversary, Sadofsky has created a sub-site called the Ten Years of Textfiles, on which he recounts his experiences as the website’s administrator. Visit the official Textfiles website.
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