Timeline

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1996

January

HLS Harvard Law becomes fully wired

February

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

March

11-Mar HLS Harvard Law School launches its first website

July

22-Jul Gov Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight regarding ICANN

1997

January

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

1998

January

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

March

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

May

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.

July

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

September

Sem. Int. Google Inc. launched

October

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

November

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

December

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

January

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

May

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/