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1995

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1996

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HLS Harvard Law becomes fully wired

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8-Feb Sem. Int. Barlow John Perry Barlow pens "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html

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11-Mar HLS Harvard Law School launches its first website

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1997

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Berkman Center on Law and Technology is officialy renamed the Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/berkman_family_gift

Berkman Zittrain The Internet & Society course is offered at Harvard Law School by Lecturer Jonathan Zittrain '95

Sem. Int. Weblogs introduced to the Internet

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1998

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Conference Harvard holds the Second Conference on Internet & Society, asking "Will the Net Inevitably Drive a Deeper Wedge Between Rich and Poor?" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cybercon98/asp/splash.asp

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3-Mar Berkman Miller Professor Arthur Miller '58 creates Berkman's first interactive lecture and discussion series, free and open to the public: "Privacy in Cyberspace" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/privacy99/

5-Mar Conference Nesson Digital China/Harvard Conference http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ChinaDragon/index.html

19-Mar Conference Lessig, Zittrain, Shapiro Berkman holds its Technorealism conference, asking "How Should We Think About Technology?" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/technorealism/tr_overview.html

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15-May Berkman Nesson Professor Nesson emails Bill Gates, suggesting Microsoft end its "Darth Vader problem" through buying Apple and giving it to a non-profit corporation.

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30-Jul Berkman Berkman releases the first issue of the Filter http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/filter?wid=379&func=viewSubmission&sid=492

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Sem. Int. Google Inc. launched

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28-Oct Sem. Int. Digital Millenium Copyright Act signed into law by President Bill Clinton

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14-Nov Zittrain Berkman Center facilitates and moderates ICANN public meeting http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/open_governance/icann

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6-Dec Conference Groups of students from MIT and Harvard Law School collaborate on new frameworks to address policy challenges from a combined legal/technical perspective. http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/6095/admin/admin-1998/conference.html

1999

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23-Jan Berkman Seltzer The Berkman Center holds the Workshop on Membership Issues for ICANN, part of the Representation in Cyberspace Study http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rcs/meeting.html

30-Jan Conference Nesson Professor Charles Nesson leads The Lessons from Woburn Conference http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/acivilaction/Conference.htm#bottom

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20-May Conference Lessig Harvard holds the Open Code/Open Content/Open Law conference, dedicated to building a digital commons http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/opencode/

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