| SERVICES & TECH
- There is a major denial of service attack against high profile Web sites in February 2000.
- The Internet bubble bursts. According to Wired magazine, the Internet boom is “more accurately described as a bubble, since it rested largely on wild stock speculation and freewheeling venture capital investment that resulted in the often ludicrous overvaluation of sketchy Internet companies….On March 10, the Nasdaq Composite index peaked (5,048.62), more than doubling its value of a year before. But then the slide began and it was a precipitous drop, which is why March 10 is generally considered to be the day the bubble burst.”
- The Love Letter worm infects computers around the world during May 2000.
- There will be approximately 3.6 million high speed cable Internet users by the end of the year.
(Source: Cahners In-Stat Group) - “The Love Bug: Few Take an Online Sick Day Due to Virus.” Pew Internet & American Life Project, May 19, 2000.
- In June 2000, Craigslist, the five-year-old online community classified site, opens its first location outside the San Francisco area with a new operation in Boston.
- “Wireless: The Next Wave?”
Presstime, June 2000. - On June 30, 2000, “President Clinton used an electronic card and his dog’s name as a password to ‘e-sign’ into law a bill that makes electronic signatures as valid as their ink counterparts….The act, approved overwhelmingly earlier in June by both houses of the U.S. Congress, eliminates legal barriers to using electronic technology to form and sign contracts.” (Sources: Reuters, CNN)
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Ads with barcodes for the CueCat reader begin appearing in major publications such as Forbes, Time, and The Dallas Morning News. The small plastic CueCat, which is shaped like a cat, connects to computers and allows readers to link to an Internet URL by scanning a barcode appearing in a print ad or article. (CueCat is a commercial failure.) -
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“ Worry About the Worm: Cousins to computer viruses, worms can cause more problems.” PC World, Sept. 22, 2000. -
“ New Internet Users: What They Do Online, What They Don’t and Implications for the Net’s Future.” Pew Internet & American Life Project, Sept. 25, 2000. -
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In November 2000, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN) approves seven new website domain names: .biz, .info, .name, .pro, .museum, aero, and .coop. - “Dot-Com Is Dead; Long Live Dot-Com!”
TheStreet.com, Nov. 3, 2000. - “Invasion of the ‘Blog’: A Parallel Web of Personal Journals.” The New York Times, Dec. 28, 2000.
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- The number of American adults with Internet access grew from about 88 million to more than 104 million in the second half of 2000. (Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project)
- According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the average American Internet user spends 4.2 hours a week on the Internet. Many years later a 2009 Harris report found that adult Internet users were spending an average of 13 hours a week online. People’s usage varied greatly. One in five (20%) of adult Internet users were online for only two hours or less a week while one in seven (14%) spent 24 or more hours a week online.
- 12 billion e-mails are sent per day during 2000. In 2008 it is 247 billion. (Source: Forbes)
- One billion Web pages are indexed by Google in 2000. By 2008 it is one trillion. (Source: Forbes)
- More than half (51.7%) of Internet users have purchased online. (Source: UCLA Internet Report)
- The telephone modem remains the dominant Internet connecting system, with 81% of connections made by phone line. (Source: UCLA Internet Report)
- During 2000 Google introduces AdWords. Their new advertising service places ads beside Google search results based on search terms.
| | THE MEDIA - “AOL and Time Warner to Merge.” CNN, Jan. 10, 2000. (See also: “America Online and Time Warner Will Merge.” Time Warner Press Release, Jan. 10, 2000;”AOL-Time Warner Merger.” Online NewsHour, Jan. 10, 2000; “AOL and Time Warner’s marriage of insecurity.” Salon, Jan. 10, 2000; “AOL Quietly Returns to Life on Its Own.” New York Times, Dec. 9, 2009; “AOL Tries to Navigate the Web it Helped You Find.” Washington Post, Dec. 9, 2009.)
- “Rupert Discovers the Internet.”
Wired, March 2000. - On March 13, 2000, the Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers and broadcast properties, announces an agreement to purchase the Times Mirror Company, owner of the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Hartford Courant, Newsday, and an assortment of magazines for approximately $8 billion.
- “Cyber News.”
Video of Net Cafe TV show. Internet Archive, March 3, 2000. - News Example:
April 22, 2000 —
“Elian Gonzalez Case.”
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Poynter’s Links to the News) - “Internet Sapping Broadcast News Audience.” Pew Research Center,
June 11, 2000. - In July 2000 Knight Ridder and the Tribune Company purchase the CareerBuilder.com online employment Web site, which was founded in 1995. In 2002 Gannett also becomes a part owner. The company’s major competitor, Monster.com, was launched in 1999.
- “Enjoy the Ride While It Lasts.”
CJR, July/August 2000. - “Surviving in Cyberspace: With the old euphoria a distant memory, what lessons have emerged to help shape the future of online journalism?”
AJR, Sept. 2000. - In September 2000 digital photography is the new technology of choice for photojournalists covering the Olympic games in Sydney, Australia.
- “E-Commerce: The Glitter Fades.”
Presstime, Nov. 2000. - “Election Day was the Internet’s time to shine, a chance for the medium to enlighten Americans in ways television could not. But ultimately, the Net faced the same pitfalls as television: Web sites could not say for sure who will be the next president.”
(Source: “Millions Online for Gore, Bush Race.” AP, Nov. 8, 2000.)
(2000 Poynter project – 1)
(2000 Poynter project – 2)
(Internet Archive Report)
(CJR stories) - “Internet Election News Audience Seeks Convenience, Familiar Names.”
Pew Research Center,
Dec. 3, 2000. - More families subscribe to Internet services than to newspapers by a 52-42% margin, according to an Annenberg Public Policy center survey. (Source: Presstime)
- U.S. dailies saw an advertising revenue peak of $49 billion in 2000. In 2009, they earned about $29 billion from ads. (Source: Ken Doctor, Newsonomics)
Awards Statistics - The America Online dial-up service has 25,000,000 subscribers.
(Source: AOL) - “More than 1,200 North American daily newspapers have launched online services.”
“Worldwide, there are more than 4,000 daily, weekly and other newspapers online.”
(Source: NAA’s 2000
Facts about Newspapers) - There are approximately 1,305 television stations with sites on the Internet or dial-up services.
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