国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
1996
Netgear, a manufacturer of computer networking equipment, is founded. Visit the company’s official website.
1997
The California state Legal Employment Network is hacked by “Global Kaos”. Visit an archived version of the defaced website.
1998
America Online (AOL) reveals that it has named several firms in a suit to bar them from spamming its subscribers. The firms named in the suit include: Gulf Coast Marketing of Baton Rouge, IMS of Knoxville, Tennessee, Louisiana, TSF Marketing, and TSF Industries of Riverside, California.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is flooded with fake information requests, and it servers are consequently shut down.
The Maryland Board of Education’s computer systems are hacked and payroll files are altered.
2000
IT research firm Computer Economics releases a report that companies lost an estimated US$5.3 billion globally in productivity due to their employees recreational web surfing and another US$12.1 billion as the result of viruses in 1999. Visit the official Computer Economics website.
2002
Yahoo! Brasil acquires Cade?, a Brazilian search engine. Visit the official Yahoo! Brasil website.
2004
Dan Pulcrano of the Metro publishes an article entitled, “Triumph of the Robots – When Google tweaks its search rankings, whole economies tremble in fear.” In the article, Pulcrano writes that Google is, “Bigger Than Jesus.” The entire article can be read at Metroactive, the Metro’s online archive.
“The current generation of information bots is likely the Model T Ford version of what lies ahead. Robots will become our personal information gatekeepers, provide content-based spam filtering, answer our mail and determine who gets through to us on the phone. Eventually, robots will begin to route our physical movements, providing Homeland Security border services, examining our biometrics as we enter buildings, guiding our vehicles on the freeways and braking at stop signs. … Technology usually advances ahead of the social wisdom to control it, and benefits arrive in tandem with risks, from Prometheus’ taming of the fire god to the exploitation of nuclear energy. Prometheus was the inspiration for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, about the robot that got away, just as some early robot science fiction drew from the legend of the golem, a clay figurine that came to life in 1580, the creation of Rabbi Judah Low bin Bezulel of Prague.”
2007
Yahoo! acquires the MyBlogLog blogger community. Visit the MyBlogLog website.
2008
Google unveils its strategy for its philanthropic arm, Google.org. The organization will be funded with 1% of Google’s annual profits, and it will concentrate on five initiatives divide into three areas: fighting climate change, economic development, and building an early warning system for pandemics and disasters. Visit the official Google.org website.
