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Happy birthday, Internet!
News He's also among those who agreed to serve on an honorary Internet birthday party committee established by UCLA, the home of the Internet's very first node. The occasion: Its 30th birthday. But the proof is in the numbers: A recent report found that...
[September 20, 1999, 9:43]
A Year Ago: Happy birthday Internet
News Although no-one knows the exact date it was invented, Wednesday has been set aside as the official birthday of the Internet by a group of enthusiasts. They have allocated Wednesday Internet day and have created a Web site to celebrate the Net's...
[October 20, 2000, 7:02]
The Internet celebrates its birthday - again
News The Internet celebrated its "most logical" 20th birthday on New Year's day -- barely three months after it turned 33. The rediscovery, by Mike Jones who works in the Systems and Networking Research Group at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters...
[January 2, 2003, 12:17]
Happy birthday Internet
News They have allocated Wednesday Internet day and have created a Web site to celebrate the Net's 30th birthday. As well as a digital birthday card for people to sign, organisers are collating comments on what people make of the Internet so far.
[October 20, 1999, 17:21]
W3C celebrates tenth birthday
News The body that sets standards for the Web -- the World Wide Web Consortium -- plans to celebrate its tenth birthday in Boston, Massachusetts, on the first of December. The occasion: its 30th birthday. W3C founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee is due to speak...
[October 15, 2004, 17:20]
Reminder 19
Downloads Use it to do things like remind you to take out the trash, wake you up in the morning, notify you of your mother's birthday, or tell you to pay your bills. Reminder 19 supports a huge number of alerts and is completely stand alone, requiring...
[April 21, 2009, 4:16]
Jane Wakefield: The real tech revolution
News The Internet is only just recovering from the hangover after its thirtieth birthday celebrations last week, and people are already trying to predict what it will look like when it is fifty. Apparently by 2020 the Internet will also have the power...
[October 1, 1999, 16:50]
Firefox: A rollercoaster year
News With Firefox reaching its first birthday on Wednesday, ZDNet UK decided to look back at the past year to revisit some of the acclaimed browser's ups and downs. Within a couple of weeks, Web analytics firms report that it is taking market share away...
[November 9, 2005, 15:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One song in particular is dedicated to the latter: it brings together Amazon.com, eBay, online financial trading, even online birthday cards. As such, it involves work, sex, social life, ambition and the Internet.
[December 10, 2004, 16:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And -- it's my birthday today! On the other side, the American record industry association RIAA failed to get its requested airtime rates through the Library of Congress -- which would, if passed, have shut down most of the small Internet radio...
[May 27, 2002, 17:26]
AOL-Microsoft deal bodes ill for Netscape
News That's a far cry from the glory days of Netscape, which began as a commercial version of the pioneering Mosaic, a browser that was recently feted on its 10th birthday. AOL is going to continue indefinitely now on IE (Internet Explorer) and has no...
[May 30, 2003, 7:41]
MP3 use goes BOOM - part 2
News A popular gift at high-school birthday parties in that part of the country is a CD containing a custom MP3 mix created with a CD "burner". Students say they find online MP3s in the hit-or-miss way that people find anything on the Internet.
[June 15, 1999, 13:37]
Net focuses on free film development
News Stick it on a coffee mug, enlarge it, have it framed for a relative's birthday, or send a link via e-mail to friends and let them do any or all of those things. With the economics of the Internet -- where eyeballs and not dollars are the currency...
[January 13, 2000, 9:36]
O2's Joggler: the digital fridge door
Blog Watch at the above link and you’ll see her remove dad’s golf game so he can participate in son’s birthday event. She organises family life using the Internet and Joggler, blithely removing appointments people have made for themselves to accommodate...
[June 2, 2009, 14:41]
Porn spammers sneak images into Outlook
News The latest version of Microsoft's Outlook was built with a relatively sophisticated spam filter, but as the product's first birthday approaches, spammers are finding new ways to ensure that their unsolicited message go undetected.
[June 21, 2004, 16:00]
UK financial organisations offer Firefox support
News Two large financial companies in the UK have pledged to try to make their Web sites compatible with Mozilla's Firefox, a week after it celebrated its first birthday. But, if a user tries to log onto the online banking facility, a page is opened...
[November 16, 2005, 15:00]
Firefox quietly celebrates first birthday
News But although Firefox's birthday is likely to be a low-key event, Nitot was jubilant about what has been achieved over the last year. As for the low-point of the last year, Nitot struggled to think of one, but eventually said that Microsoft's...
[November 9, 2005, 11:00]
SirCam to target Europe in new attack
News The highly destructive SirCam worm has been programmed to return on its three-month birthday, and Europe will be a prime target for the attacks. It also contains its own SMTP routine, which is used to send email messages to email addresses found in...
[October 16, 2001, 11:58]
Google doodles with Dilbert
News Patrick's Day and Claude Monet's birthday. For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's Internet News Section. Zany office worker Dilbert is jumping from his cubicle to the...
[May 21, 2002, 13:49]
Startup Spotlight: Jomono.com
News ItÂ’s your birthday and youÂ’ve received an Odeon cinema voucher, but there is no Odeon cinema within a twenty mile radius of your home town. This is a prime example of how the Internet can revolutionise a traditional industry.
[January 28, 2000, 7:15]
