2000 to 2005 Timeline Outline

Massive Denial-of-Service Attack
(2000)

3,200,000 Books Are In Print in the U.S.
(2000)

The Size of the Internet in 2000
(2000)

How Much Information?
(2000)

Over 5,000,000 Items in the National Digital Library Program
(2000)

MINERVA to Preserve Open-Access Web Resources
(2000)

The Last Integrated Typefoundry, Letterpress Printer & Bindery
(2000)

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
(2000)

On the Value of the History of Science in Scientific Research
(2000)

The Journal of Interactive Advertising
(2000)

Prepress Becomes Digital
(2000)

Pandora Radio is Founded
(January 2000)

Over 10,000,000 Domain Names Have Been Registered
(February 2000)

Predecessor of the Wikipedia
(March 9, 2000 – September 2003)

Climax of the Dot-Com Bubble
(March 10, 2000)

OED Online
(March 14, 2000)

eBook Distributor is Acquired by Barnes & Noble
(June 5, 2000 – March 2009)

The Most Extensive Computation Ever Undertaken in Biology
(June 26, 2000)

The ASCI White Supercomputer
(June 29, 2000)

IBM Forms a Life Sciences Division
(August 2000)

There are 20,000,000 Websites on the Internet.
(September 2000)

Google Launches AdWords
(October 23, 2000)

"Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction"?
(December 14 – December 21, 2000)

National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
(December 21, 2000)

Safeguarding Internet Security in China
(December 28, 2000)

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of Commons in a Connected World
(2001)

The Wayback Machine
(2001)

IBM and the Holocaust
(2001)

Conflicts between Androids and Men
(2001)

Origins of Google Earth and Google Maps
(2001)

High Density Rosetta Archival Preservation Technology
(2001)

The Digital Preservation Coalition
(January 2001)

Open Archival Information System
(January 2001)

The Wikipedia Begins
(January 15, 2001)

Publication of the Human Genome Sequence
(February 15 – February 16, 2001)

Google Acquires Deja.com
(February 21, 2001)

An Injunction Against Napter to Prevent Trading of Copyrighted Music
(March 5, 2001)

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
(April 2001)

The Future of eBooks
(May 3, 2001)

The BitTorrent Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Protocol
(July 2, 2001)

The First Attempt to Make a Photorealistic Computer Animated 3D Feature Film
(July 11, 2001)

Beneath the Surface of the Ocean of Data: "The Deep Web"
(August 2001)

Satellite Radio Broadcasting Begins
(September 25, 2001)

The First 3G Cellular Network
(October 1, 2001)

iPod Launched
(October 23, 2001)

Physical versus Digital Information in Libraries
(November 2001)

Xbox
(November 15, 2001)

Printing on Cakes
(November 20, 2001)

Rhapsody is Launched
(December 2001)

Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 and its Printer are Finally Constructed
(2002)

Size of the Internet in 2002
(2002)

Origins of Cyberspace
(2002)

Over 500,000 Egyptian Papyri Survive
(2002)

HASTAC is Founded
(2002)

Minority Report
(2002)

Machinima
(2002)

Working Around Chinese Censorship of Literary Works
(2002)

Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities
(May 2002)

A Modern Analogue to the Greatest Library of the Ancient World
(October 16, 2002)

Computational Analytical Bibliography Makes Typographical Discovery
(November 2002)

Creative Commons
(December 2002)

ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online) is Founded
(December 1, 2002)

How Much Information?
(2003)

Second Life is Launched
(2003)

Customer Account Data Engine
(2003)

The First Cell Phone Novel
(2003)

859,000 New Book Titles Published Worldwide in 2003
(2003)

Regulations.gov is Launched
(January 2003)

Collecting and Preserving the World Wide Web
(February 23, 2003)

Looting of the National Museum of Iraq
(April 6 – April 12, 2003)

The First Automatic Page-Turning Scanner
(April 7 – April 9, 2003)

Privacy of Medical Records and Electronic Data
(April 14, 2003)

Apple Opens the iTunes Store
(April 28, 2003)

Grand Text Auto
(May 2003 – May 2009)

Netpreserve.org
(July 2003)

MySpace is Founded
(August 2003)

Skype is Founded
(August 2003)

Amazon Introduces "Search Inside" 120,000 Books
(October 23, 2003)

Metroblogging
(November 2003)

The Actroid
(November 2003 – 2007)

"Vegetal and Mineral Memory: The Future of Books"
(November 1, 2003)

The World's Largest Book --Spectacularly Beautiful
(December 2003)

World Summit on the Information Society
(December 10 – December 12, 2003)

The First U.S. Standards for Sending Commercial E-Mail
(December 16, 2003)

OCLC Serves More than 50,000 Libraries, Contains 56 Million Records
(2004)

800,000,000 People are Using the Internet
(2004)

Approximately 530 miles of Bookshelves
(2004)

1,200,000 Unique Book Titles are Sold
(2004)

2,350,000 U.S. Students in Online Learning
(2004)

The Institute for the Future of the Book
(2004)

Flickr
(February 2004)

Facebook
(February 4, 2004)

The National Digital Newspaper Program
(March 2004)

There are 50,000,000 Websites on the Internet
(May 2004)

The Index-Catalogue Goes Online
(May 1, 2004)

The Site of the Original Library of Alexandria
(May 12, 2004)

Image Manipulation in Scientific Publications
(July 6, 2004)

BitTorrent is Commercialized
(September 22, 2004)

The Google Print Project
(October 2004)

"The Long Tail"
(October 2004)

Web 2.0
(October 5 – October 7, 2004)

Cortical Rewiring and Information Storage
(October 14, 2004)

Supercomputer Project Columbia
(October 27, 2004)

8,000,000 U.S. Blogs
(November 2004)