2005 to 2010 Timeline Outline

Use of Internet in China
(2005)

40,000,000,000 Web Pages Archived
(2005)

Attempting to Use an Ink-Jet Printer to Print Living Tissue. . . .
(2005)

The World's Fastest Newspaper Offset Press
(2005)

From the Sixth Century to the Twenty-First
(2005)

Kosmix.com
(2005)

"From Gutenberg to the Internet"
(2005)

Google Earth is Launched
(2005)

"Last Child in the Woods" : Exploration of Nature Versus Exposure to Media in Childhood
(2005)

NarusInsight Supercomputer Network Monitoring Software
(2005)

Reflections on the Transition from Hot Metal to Digital Typesetting
(2005)

"Broadcast Yourself"
(February 2005)

The European Library is Launched
(March 17, 2005)

Over 102 Million Units Shipped
(March 31, 2005)

Development and State Control of the Chinese Internet
(April 14, 2005)

The First Video is Uploaded to YouTube
(April 23, 2005)

AOL Buys The Huffington Post
(May 9, 2005 – February 7, 2011)

Proposal for a World Digital Library
(June 6, 2005)

Adoption of User-Generated Content by Mainstream Media
(July 7, 2005)

"Peer to Patent"
(July 14, 2005)

Wikimania!
(August 4 – August 8, 2005)

Moratorium on Scanning Books
(August 11, 2005)

The First Intelligible Word from an Extinct South American Civilization?
(August 12, 2005)

The Million Dollar Homepage
(August 25, 2005 – January 11, 2006)

LibraryThing is Founded
(August 29, 2005)

A University Library Intended to Contain Very Few Physical Books
(September 6, 2005)

Electronic Records Archives System
(September 8, 2005)

Preservation of Digital Objects
(September 15 – September 16, 2005)

Connectomes
(September 30, 2005)

Google Print Morphs in Two
(October 2005)

300,000,000 Printed Copies
(October 5, 2005)

The Genetic Code of Avian Flu Virus H5N1 is Deciphered
(October 5, 2005)

It Could Take 300 Years to Index All the World's Information
(October 8, 2005)

Decoding Printer Tracking Dots
(October 19, 2005)

The Open Content Alliance is Founded
(October 25, 2005)

280.6 Trillion Operations per Second
(October 28, 2005)

The Amazon Mechanical Turk
(November 2, 2005)

Massively Distributed Collaboration
(November 9, 2005)

A Plan to Create a World Digital Library
(November 11, 2005)

Google Books
(December 2005)

Maybe the World's Largest Physical Library
(December 2005)

The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections
(December 2005)

Nearly as Accurate as Brittanica
(December 14, 2005)

Pixar at MOMA
(December 14, 2005)

The Google Librarian Newsletter
(December 19, 2005)

The Wayback Machine
(2006)

Data Curation as a Profession
(2006)

The Growing Field of Internet Marketing
(2006)

iLike
(2006)

Springer Published 50,000 eBooks
(2006 – January 19, 2012)

The Highest Price Paid for a Domain Name
(January 16, 2006)

File-Sharing Exceeds Sales of Digital Music Downloads
(January 22, 2006)

Disney Acquires Pixar
(January 24, 2006)

Using Currency Movements to Predict the Spread of Infectious Disease
(January 26, 2006)

College-Level Lectures Via Podcasts
(January 28, 2006)

Hepting v. AT&T
(January 31, 2006)

A Research Library Based on Historical Collections of the Internet Archive
(February 2006)

92% of Cameras Sold are Digital
(February 2006)

"The Greatest 200 Videogames of Their Time"
(February 2, 2006)

The "Cyber Storm" War Game
(February 6 – February 10, 2006)

Zillow.com
(February 8, 2006)

Making Handwritten Manuscripts Searchable
(February 9, 2006)

On the Origins of the ENIAC
(February 14, 2006)

Over One Billion iTunes Downloads
(February 22, 2006)

Access to Nearly One Million Archive Collection Descriptions
(March 2006)

World Wide Web History Center
(March 2006)

Studies on Digital Library Evolution
(March 2006)

The Changing Nature of the Catalogue. . . .
(March 17, 2006)

Damage to Codex Atlanticus Caused by Efforts at Preservation
(April 2006)

The Most Viewed Video on YouTube as of 2009
(April 2006 – May 9, 2009)

The Espresso "On Demand" Book Machine
(April 2006)

A Critical Review at the Library of Congress
(April 3, 2006)

The Biggest Music Retailer in the World: Apple's iTune Store
(April 23, 2006)

"The entire works of humankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages" would amount to 50 petabytes of data.
(May 14, 2006)

Crowdsourcing
(June 2006)

Like Teleporting in Star Trek
(June 2006)

The "Print Clock" Method
(June 20, 2006)

OCLC Merges with RLG
(July 1, 2006)

Reborn Digital: The First Fully Digital University Press: A 3 Year Experiment in the United States
(July 13, 2006 – September 30, 2010)

Molecular Animation
(July 30, 2006 – August 3, 2007)

Google Apps are Introduced
(August 2006)

100,000,000 Users Within Three Years
(August 9, 2006)

Web-Footed?
(September 2006)

The Sony Reader PRS-500
(Circa September – October 2006)

Nature Announces Peer to Peer Review
(September 14, 2006)

Publishing Patent Filings on the Web
(September 26, 2006)

Twitter: "What Are You Doing?"
(October 2006)

Will it Blend?
(October 2006)

The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive
(October 29, 2006)

Previously Unknown Speeches by Hyperides
(November 2006)

More than 100,000,000 Websites
(November 1, 2006)

Google's AdWords to Place Ads in Print Newspapers
(November 6, 2006)

Google Buys YouTube
(November 6, 2006)

Newspaper Advertising in Partnership with Yahoo
(November 20, 2006)

The EPA Begins to Close its Scientific Libraries
(November 20, 2006)

"Anshe Chung Becomes First Virtual World Millionaire"
(November 26, 2006)

Demanding that the U.S. EPA Desist from Destroying its Libraries
(November 30, 2006)

3.1 Billion Books
(Circa December 2006)

"An Uncensorable System for Mass Document Leaking"
(December 2006)

YouWitnessNews
(December 5, 2006)

The Importance of Social Networking on the Internet
(December 16, 2006)

Wikileaks Manifesto
(December 31, 2006)

A Printed Book on Preserving Digital Information
(2007)

The Universal Digital Library has Scanned over 1,000,000 Books
(2007)

More than 4.7 Billion Bibles Were Been Printed Between 1455 and 2007
(2007)

No More than 10,000,000 Unique Editions before 1900
(2007)

Sales of Books in America in 2007
(2007)

976,000 New Book Titles Published in 2007
(2007)

IBM Begins Development of the Watson Question Answering System
(2007)

The Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper Moves to the Web
(January 1, 2007)

The First One Terabyte Hard Disk Drive
(January 4, 2007)

Information is Expanding 10X Faster than Any Product on this Planet
(February 2007)

Is the Universe Made of Information?
(February 2007)

In 2007 There Were 12,000,000 U.S. Blogs
(February 2007)

My.BarackObama.com
(February 11, 2007)

More than 80 Trillion Floating-Point Operations per Second
(February 13, 2007)

Data-Storing Bacteria Could Last Thousands of Years
(February 27, 2007)

Photosynth Demonstrated
(March 2007)

It Would Take 1800 Years to Convert the Paper Records . . . .
(March 10, 2007)

Still Another Major Discovery in the Archimedes Palimpsest
(April 26, 2007)

Checkers is "Solved"
(April 29, 2007)

Google Introduces Street View in Google Maps
(May 25, 2007 – May 12, 2008)

The First Embassy of a Real Country in a Virtual World
(May 30, 2007)

Watson's Genome
(May 31, 2007)

Apple Introduces the iPhone
(June 29, 2007)

Second Life is Used for Teaching Foreign Languages
(July 2007)

The World Wide Telecom Web for Illiterate Populations
(August 2007)

The First Healthcare Course Taught in Second Life
(September 2007)

Gaining 100,000,000 New Accounts in One Year
(September 7, 2007)

DROID, an Archives Analysis and Identification Tool
(September 27, 2007)

28,578,000 Copies Printed Semi-Monthly
(November 2007)

Brainbow: A Colorful Technique to Visualize Brain Circuitry
(November 2007)

Codex in Crisis
(November 5, 2007)

The Amazon Kindle
(November 19, 2007)

Kindle Direct Publishing Introduced
(November 19, 2007)

Drama in the Context of a Telephone Exchange (1928)
(2008)

21 Billion $ in Revenue from Google AdWords
(2008)

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in "Second Life"
(2008)

The Thinnest Notebook Computer
(January 15, 2008)

The World's Oldest Oil Paintings Restored After Taliban Dynamite
(February 19, 2008)

Game-Based Learning for Virtual Patients
(March 2008)

Statistical Analysis Correctly Forecasts the Election of Obama
(March 3, 2008)

Cyber Storm II
(March 10 – March 14, 2008)

About 200 Million People in the U.S. Have Broadband Connections
(May 2008)

The First Computer to Go Petascale
(May 25, 2008)

Five Billion Songs
(June 2008)

Encyclopedia Brittanica Will Include Wiki-Style Collaboration
(June 2008)

The Effect of Decay Fungi on Wood Used in the Production of Violins
(June 28, 2008)

21.9% of the World's People Use the Internet
(June 30, 2008)

Over One Trillion Unique URLs Indexed
(July 2008)

The iTunes App Store Opens
(July 10, 2008)

Toward a World Digital Mathematics Library
(July 27, 2008)

Sirus XM Satellite Radio
(July 29, 2008)

"Computer Criminal Number One"
(August 5, 2008)

181,277,835 Active Websites
(September 2008)

The Leading Classified Advertising Service
(September 2008)

The First Android Phone is Introduced
(September 23, 2008)

Viewing the Illustrations of a Journal Article in Three Dimensions
(September 30, 2008)

The Largest Atlas Ever Published as a Printed Book
(October 2008 – March 2012)

Creation of the HathiTrust Digital Library
(October 2008 – March 2012)

The Obama-Biden Campaign Launches Facebook Connect Integration on My.BarackObama.com
(October 20, 2008)

More than 200,000,000 Apps Downloaded
(October 21, 2008)

Old Wine in New Bottles?
(October 24, 2008)

An Encyclopedia with More than Ten Million Articles
(October 27, 2008)

The First National Newspaper to Shift From a Daily Print Format to an Online Publication
(October 28, 2008)

Authors, Publishers and Google Reach "Landmark Settlement"
(October 28, 2008)

Raphael's Madonna of the Goldfinch Restored 450 Years after it was Nearly Destroyed
(October 30, 2008)

An Election Reported Interactively in Real Time
(November 4, 2008)

Change.gov is Founded
(November 5, 2008)

Discovery of a Set of Mutations that Might Have Caused a Cancer
(November 6, 2008)

Analysis of Web Search Queries Track the Spread of Flu Faster than Traditional Surveillance Methods
(November 11, 2008)

First Images of Extra-Solar Planets Taken from the Visible Spectrum: Planets Located 130 Light-Years from Earth
(November 13, 2008)

A Virtual Exhibition . . .
(November 18, 2008)

PC Magazine Becomes an Online-Only Publication
(November 19, 2008)

Scientists Sequence Woolly Mammoth Genome--the First of an Extinct Animal
(November 19, 2008)

Europeana, the European Digital Library, Museum and Archive
(November 20, 2008)

Downloads Trump CDs
(November 25, 2008)

Over 5,000,000 Articles Posted on the HighWire Press e-Publishing Platform.
(December 2, 2008)

Probably the Most Expensive Single Volume Printed Edition Ever Published
(December 2, 2008)

Securing Cyberspace
(December 8, 2008)

Pulitzer Prizes Will be Awarded for Online Journalism
(December 8, 2008)

First Reported Case of ZZZ-Mailing
(December 15, 2008)

2.5 Trillion Text Messages
(December 26, 2008)

"The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age"
(2009)

"Readability" is Launched
(2009)

U.S. Households Received and Sent 176 Billion Pieces of Physical Mail in 2009
(2009)

Rare Books Magazine Moves from Print to the Web
(January 1, 2009)

Apple Eliminates Anticopying Restrictions from iTunes
(January 6, 2009)

China Becomes the Top User of the Internet
(January 14, 2009)

The BBC Intends to Place 200,000 Oil Paintings on the Internet
(January 28, 2009)

BitTorrent was Responsible for 27-55% of All Internet Traffic
(February 2009)

Google Earth Incorporates Historical Imagery
(February 2, 2009)

"Google and the Future of Books"
(February 12, 2009)

Discovery of a Previously Unknown Self- Portrait of Leonardo
(February 28, 2009)

The Largest Municipal Archive in Germany Collapses During Underground Construction
(March 3, 2009)

A Higher Resolution Map of Knowledge Than Can be Produced from Citation Analysis
(March 11, 2009)

The Largest U.S. Newspaper to Become an Internet-Only News Source
(March 17, 2009)

"Computers vs. Brains"
(April 1, 2009)

Using Automation to Find "Fundamental Laws of Nature"
(April 3, 2009)

Robot Scientist becomes the First Machine to Discover New Scientific Knowledge
(April 3, 2009)

Australia to Build National Fiber Optic 100 Megabit Network
(April 7, 2009)

The First Collaborative Online Orchestra
(April 15, 2009)

The World Digital Library Launches
(April 21, 2009)

Towards the Open Advancement of Question Answering Systems
(April 22, 2009)

IBM's Watson Question Answering System Challenges Humans at Jeopardy
(April 27, 2009)

Kickstarter.com is Launched
(April 28, 2009)

Using YouTube Videos to Study the Origins of Music in Societies
(April 30, 2009)

Using Air Traffic and Currency Tracking Data in Epidemiology
(May 3, 2009)

Increasing Sales of Digital Books (eBooks)
(May 5, 2009)

Larger Version of the Amazon Kindle Introduced
(May 6, 2009)

Wolfram/Alpha is Launched
(May 16, 2009)

"Green Dam Youth Escort"
(May 19, 2009)

Changing the Advertising Model for General News Reporting
(May 21, 2009)

Reinventing Email and Internet Communication
(May 28, 2009)

Google Will Sell eBooks
(May 31, 2009)

Size of the Online Book Market in the U.S.
(June 1, 2009)

The WARC Format as an International File Preservation Standard
(June 1, 2009)

Microsoft Launches Bing
(June 1, 2009)

The First Magazine Cover Created as iPhone Art
(June 1, 2009)

Costs of Managed Archiving versus Passive Archiving of Data
(June 4, 2009)

"Revenue at Craigslist is Said to Top $100,000,000"
(June 9, 2009)

The U.S. Converts from Analog to Digital TV Broadcasting
(June 12, 2009)

Piracy of Internet Filtering Software?
(June 13, 2009)

Employment in the Field of Simulation
(June 14, 2009)

"The Web Pries Lid off Iranian Censorship"
(June 23, 2009)

The Death of Michael Jackson Impacts the Internet
(June 25, 2009)

More than 2 Billion Apps Downloaded in 15 Months
(July – November 2009)

The Human Connectome Project
(July 2009)

Virtual Reunification of the Codex Sinaiticus
(July 6, 2009)

Amazon Sends Orwell eBooks Down the "Memory Hole"
(July 16, 2009)

USA Today Adds eBook Sales to its Bestsellers List
(July 22, 2009)

Bing Will Power Yahoo! Search
(July 29, 2009)

The Overlap of Innovation and Tradition in the 15th Century Media Revolution
(August 2009)

"What's a Big City Without a Newspaper?"
(August 9, 2009)

The Cost of DeCoding a Human Genome Drops to $50,000
(August 10, 2009)

MySpace Acquires iLike
(August 19, 2009)

Displaying Crowdsourced Road Congestion Data on Google Maps
(August 25, 2009)

Imaging a Molecule One Million Times Smaller Than a Grain of Sand
(August 28, 2009)

Confirmation that Fungally-Treated Wood Enables Great Violin Sound
(September 2009)

The First College Journalism Course Focused on Twitter
(September 1, 2009)

Algorithm to Decipher Ancient Texts
(September 2, 2009)

Darnton's Case for Books: Past, Present and Future
(September 14, 2009)

'Material Degradomics" or, The Sniff Test
(September 17, 2009)

1.7 Billion Internet Users
(September 30, 2009)

The First Historical Thesaurus
(October 2009)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism
(October 3, 2009)

eBook Sales Represent 1.6% of Book Sales
(October 7, 2009)

" A Library to Last Forever" ??
(October 9, 2009)

Discovery of Unknown Portrait by Leonardo Confirmed by a Fingerprint
(October 13, 2009)

The Finest Roman Cameo Glass Vase Discovered
(October 13, 2009)

Distinctive Special Collections in the Digital Age
(October 15 – October 16, 2009)

The Largest Study of Global Internet Traffic Since the Beginning of the Commercial Internet
(October 19, 2009)

Google Represents 6% of All Internet Traffic
(October 19, 2009)

David Hockney's iPhone Art
(October 22, 2009)

ICANN Will Allow Web Addresses in Non-Latin Alphabets
(October 30, 2009)

1.75 Petaflops Achieved
(November 2009)

Bing Will Encorporate Wolfram Alpha Search Information
(November 12, 2009)

A "Significant Amount" of Water is Discovered on the Moon
(November 13, 2009)

U.S. National Text Pager Intercepts from 9/11 Are Released
(November 26 – November 26, 2009)

Convergence of Media: Packaging Blu-ray Discs in Books
(December 2009)

Google's Computers in China Come Under Attack, Initiating a Review of the Company's Operations in China
(December 2009 – January 12, 2010)

Google Announces Real-Time Search
(December 2009)

Google Living Stories Project
(December 8, 2009)

Introduction of Google Goggles
(December 8, 2009)

The Film "Avatar" and Visions of Reality, Virtual and Otherwise
(December 10, 2009)

French Alternative to Google Books Formed
(December 17, 2009)

The Amazon Kindle is Hacked; eBook Digital Rights Management Cracked
(December 23, 2009)

eBooks Begin to Outsell Physical Books; 1.49 Million Kindles Sold?
(December 27, 2009)