10 YEARS OF CBC.CA
1995
CBC Websites
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Site Technology
  • Audio on demand is available on CBC Radio website
Canada News
  • May 25: Supreme Court rules it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation
  • Oct 30: Quebec separatists narrowly lose referendum
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
Tech News
  • Aug 9: Launch of Netscape IPO sparks Internet boom
  • Aug 24: Microsoft releases Windows 95
  • Sep: The DVD is introduced
1996
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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
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
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
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
CBC.ca Milestones
Site Technology
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
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
Tech News
  • Jun: Netscape Navigator 4.0 released
  • Jul 26: Mac OS 8 released
  • Sep: Slashdot tech news site created
1998
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  • 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
1999
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2000
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2001
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  • Dec: Tuning the World: Radio 1901 launches
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2002
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  • Sep 18: CBC inks deal with ZIM Technologies to offer CBC Mobile News Updates via phone text messaging
Canada 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
2003
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2004
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2005
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2006
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  • 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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