1995 |
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Site Technology |
- Audio on demand is available on CBC Radio website
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Canada News |
- May 25: Supreme Court rules it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation
- Oct 30: Quebec separatists narrowly lose referendum
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World News |
- Jan 1: Austria, Finland, Sweden join EU
- Jan 23: OJ Simpson murder trial begins
- Mar 18: Michael Jordan quits baseball, returns to basketball
- Apr 19: 168 die in Oklahoma City bombing
- May 11: Actor Christopher Reeve paralyzed in riding accident
- Jun 29: Department store collapses in South Korea
- Oct 3: O.J. Simpson found not guilty
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Tech News |
- Aug 9: Launch of Netscape IPO sparks Internet boom
- Aug 24: Microsoft releases Windows 95
- Sep: The DVD is introduced
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1996 |
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CBC.ca Milestones |
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Site Technology |
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Canada News |
- Apr 3: Canadian Forces personnel spend day searching for documents for Somalia inquiry
- May 19: Marc Garneau flies on a second space mission, operates Canadarm for first time
- Jul 1: Winnipeg Jets head south to become the Phoenix Coyotes
- Jul 28: Donovan Bailey wins gold in 100m with world record 9.84 seconds
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World News |
- Apr 3: "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski arrested
- Jul 19: Atlanta Olympics open (they close Aug. 4)
- Jul 27: Olympic Park bombing at Atlanta Olympics
- Aug 28: Prince Charles & Princess Diana divorce
- Sep 27: Taliban take Kabul in Afghanistan
- Nov 5: Clinton beats Dole for U.S. presidency
- Dec 26: 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey found murdered in Boulder, Colorado
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Tech News |
- Jan 23: First version of Java released
- Feb 10: IBM Deep Blue computer defeats chess champion Kasparov for first time
- Mar 26: ANIK E-1 satellite malfunctions, temporarily losing 60 per cent capacity
- May: HotBot search engine launched by Wired Magazine
- May: The Onion satirical website launched
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1997 |
CBC Websites |
- Apr 27: CBC launches federal election site with Sympatico at www.election97.cbc.ca
- Jul 1: CBC4Kids launches
- Nov 24: CBC.ca redesign is launched, includes customized program schedules
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CBC.ca Milestones |
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Site Technology |
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Canada News |
- Jan 5: Brian Mulroney and Canadian government reach out-of-court settlement over Airbus
- Mar 19: Bre-X's de Guzman falls from helicopter in Indonesia
- Apr 22: Massive flooding of Manitoba's Red River
- Jun 2: Canadian election: Chr�tien Liberal majority
- Nov 14: Reena Virk killed by classmates in Saanich, B.C.
- Nov 21: APEC summit in Vancouver leads to use of pepper spray
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World News |
- Feb 4: O.J. Simpson found guilty in civil court
- Feb 13: Hubble Telescope repaired aboard space shuttle Discovery
- Feb 22: Dolly the sheep cloned in Scotland
- Jun 2: Timothy McVeigh convicted in Oklahoma City bombing
- Jun 30: First Harry Potter novel published
- Jul 4: Mars Pathfinder mission successfully lands on Mars
- Aug 31: Princess Diana killed in Paris car crash
- Nov 17: 62 killed in Luxor, Egypt massacre
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Tech News |
- Jun: Netscape Navigator 4.0 released
- Jul 26: Mac OS 8 released
- Sep: Slashdot tech news site created
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1998 |
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CBC.ca Milestones |
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Canada News |
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World News |
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Tech News |
- Feb 8: QuickTime the basis for MPEG-4 standard
- Mar 30: QuickTime 3.0 for Mac OS introduced
- May 7: Apple's Steve Jobs unveils one-piece iMac
- Jun: Microsoft�s Bill Gates releases Windows 98
- Sep 7: Search engine Google founded
- Oct 28: Clinton signs Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law
- Nov 24: AOL buys Netscape
- Dec: PayPal founded
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1999 |
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CBC.ca Milestones |
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Site Technology |
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Canada News |
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2000 |
CBC Websites |
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CBC.ca Milestones |
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Site Technology |
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Canada News |
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World News |
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Tech News |
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2001 |
CBC Websites |
- Dec: Tuning the World: Radio 1901 launches
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CBC.ca Milestones |
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Site Technology |
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Canada News |
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World News |
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Tech News |
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2002 |
CBC Websites |
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CBC.ca Milestones |
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Site Technology |
- Sep 18: CBC inks deal with ZIM Technologies to offer CBC Mobile News Updates via phone text messaging
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Canada News |
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World News |
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Tech News |
- Jan 22: AOL sues Microsoft over browser
- Jun 5: Net browser Mozilla 1.0 released
- Jul 15: QuickTime 6.0 released
- Jul 17: 2nd generation iPod released
- Aug 24: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar released
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2003 |
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CBC.ca Milestones |
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Canada News |
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Tech News |
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2004 |
CBC Websites |
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CBC.ca Milestones |
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Site Technology |
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Canada News |
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World News |
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Tech News |
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2005 |
CBC Websites |
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CBC.ca Milestones |
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Site Technology |
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Canada News |
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World News |
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Tech News |
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2006 |
CBC Websites |
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CBC.ca Milestones |
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Site Technology |
- Apr: Live streaming of CBC News: Canada Now
- May 3: CBC Radio expands podcasting service to 22 offerings
- May 5: New publishing tool goes live for CBC.ca News and Sports
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