国内大事记回目录
国外大事记回目录
1997
Disney Online launches the Disney Daily Blast Internet website aimed at children aged 3-12 years.
Kilauren Gibb of Toronto reveals that she surfed the Internet to determine that celebrity musician Joni Mitchell is the birth mother who gave her up thirty-two years prior. By way of Mitchell’s Internet home page, Gibb discovers fourteen “points of comparison” to confirm her suspicions.
1998
Playboy is awarded US$3.74 million plus court costs in a judgment against a San Diego-based firm called Five Senses Productions and its owner, Francesco Sanfilippo. According to the suit heard in federal court, the commercial Internet company used almost 7,500 Playboy-owned photographs on their service without permission.
2002
Yahoo! launches a new small business site, http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com. The site is a centralized resource for online small business services and solutions. Read the original press release.
2003
The Fizzer computer virus begins spreading through the Kazaa file sharing network.
2004
One of the .ly nameservers stops responding, causing the other nameserver to gooffline, making the domain completely inaccessible. .Ly is the top-level domain of Libya. Service will be restored on April 13th.
2008
In an address at the RSA Security Conference, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warns IT professionals that a cyberterrorist attack could hurt the U.S. as much as the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and announces the launch of what he describes as a “reverse Manhattan Project” to secure domestic networks. The Manhattan Project developed what was, in its own time, the ultimate offensive weapon, the atom bomb. The goal of a reverse Manhattan Project would be to build the ultimate defensive weapon. One of the project’s chief goals is to reduce the number of access points to government systems from thousands to about fifty and to develop a method of monitoring networks in real time and anticipating forthcoming attacks. Read more at TechNewsWorld.
