Bryan Lee's List: Educational Technology Webquest

• Computers continue to work and the world doesn't come to an end on January 1, 2000 as some feared might happen because of the year 2000 bug.
• Microsoft Windows 2000 was released February 17, 2000.
• On March 10, 2000 NASDAQ hits its record high and marks the turning point of the dot-com boom.
• Young Filipino students releases the  ILOVEYOU e-mail virus that begins  infecting computers and spreading over the Internet May 5, 2000. The virus  becomes one of the most costly viruses ever because of the steps involved in  cleaning a computer after it has been infected.
• On June 24, 2000 U.S. President Bill Clinton makes the first ever Presidential webcast among the announcements President Bill Clinton announces a new web site that will be able to search all government resources.

  • http://www.usa.gov/ - Titled "Government made easy," is hailed as a centralized location for all things related to the US Government. Links for all cabinet departments are there as well.
• Microsoft releases Windows ME June 19, 2000.2000Microsoft introduces C# to the public in June 2000.2000Microsoft release DirectX 8, November 9, 2000.
• January 1, 2001 - Microsoft announces Windows 95 is now a legacy item and will no longer be sold or shipped to any more customers.

  • Here Microsoft confirms the current practice of phasing out software, whether it is working or not, a kind of planned obselescence.
• Linus Torvalds releases version 2.4 of the Linux Kernel source code on January 4th

  • An open source operating system still in use, and favored by many over Windows or Mac OS X.
• The Code Red worm begins infecting Windows  computers in July 2001 with the intention of performing a DDoS attack on the White House government web  page. The worm is estimated in causing $2 billion in damages and never succeeded  in it's attack.

  • This makes cyber attacks a very real and costly threat.
• Apple introduces the iPod

  • handheld hard drives with ease of interface, become the most popular handheld device in history, reorganizing the way end-users store and access media.
• Microsoft Windows XP home and professional editions are released October 25, 2001.

  • still in use
• • Shows the exponentially rapid increases in connectivity. Shows the risk now faced in the cyber world.
• The Slammer worm is first released in January  2003 and becomes the fastest spreading worm in history after infecting hundreds  of thousands of computers in less than three hours

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