国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
America Online (AOL) confirms plans to acquire Netscape Communications in a deal estimated to be worth US$10 billion.
The United States Department of Commerce signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), recognizing ICANN as the “Newco” entity referred to in amendment eleven of the United States government’s June 1998 Statement of Policy on the Management ofInternet Domain Names and Addresses, commonly known simply as the “White Paper.” The White Paper calls upon the global Internet community to create “a new, not-for-profit corporation formed by private sector Internet stakeholders to administer policy for the Internet name and address system.” Visit ICANN’s official website.
The website of Chemical and Biological Defense Information is hacked by “Hackmasters”. View an archived version of the defaced website.
1999
Version 6.3 of the SUSE Linux operating system is released. Visit the system’s official website.
2002
Roxio acquires all the assets of Napster Inc. and rebrands the service as Napster 2.0, using the same widely recognized logo on an entirely new service..
2004
Reverse engineer Jon Lech Johansen, better known as “DVD Jon,” releases a proof of concept program that allows Linux users to play video encoded with Microsoft’s proprietary WMV9 codec using the VLC media player. The release comes as a significant blow to Microsoft, as the company has been aggressively lobbying the movie industry to use the company’s codec as the next DVD standard. Visit Jon Johansen’s blog.
2008年11月25日,曾在MTV担任数字音乐高级副总裁的Courtney Holt Joins 担任MySpace Music的总裁。