Timeline

Click the "edit" link next to the month in which you want to add an event and follow the format of the other entries to make additions.

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/

December

December Sem. Int. Recording Industry Association of America files lawsuit against Napster

Conference Nesson, Ogletree Berkman holds Cyber Jam '99, a conference held with the Jamaican government to develop a nonprofit open code e-commerce platform http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberjam/cyberjam/

JOLT The Harvard Journal of Law & Technology goes online http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/

2000

February

25-Feb Conference Barlow Berkman holds the Signal or Noise conference, discussing the future of music on the Net http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/netmusic.html

April

21-Apr Berkman Cabell Berkman offers "Using ICANN's UDRP," its first course certified for continuing legal education (CLE) credit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/udrp/index.html

May

1-May Berkman MacKinnon Berkman hosts "Arguing the Violence Against Women Act: Two Views" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/vaw/

June

Conference Zittrain Harvard holds its (now impressively named) Third Biennial International Conference on Internet & Society http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/05.25/ryan.html

October

10-Oct Conference Nesson Berkman and Fred Friendly hold a judicial conference, organized with the Practicing Law Institute http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/digitaldiscovery/framework.asp

November

15-Nov Berkman Zittrain Berkman holds "The Day the Music Died?", debating Harvard's policy on Napster and its siblings http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/daymusic.html

2001

April

23-Apr Conference Zittrain Harvard hosts the nation's attorneys general for the 2001 National Association of Attorneys General Internet Law Institute

December

December Berkman Koslow The Berkman Center Weekly Luncheon Series officially begins http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/fellows_luncheon_series

Sem. Int. Wikipedia launches the first public, collaborative encyclopedia

Sem. Int. Lessig Creative Commons founded http://wiki.creativecommons.org/History

2002

May

30-May Conference Nesson Berkman hosts "Cybertree 2002," focusing on globalization, rehabilitation, and reparation http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cybertree/

July

1-Jul Conference The first iLaw Program at Harvard Law School is held http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/participants

October

9-Oct Berkman Lessig U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument in Eldred v. Ashcroft. Professor Lessig argues for Eric Eldred and petitioners. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/

November

15-Nov Conference Berkman hosts the Internet & Society 2002 conference, dubbed "A Community Experiment" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/I&S2002/index_xflash.html

2003

March

24-Mar Conference iLaw Program for 2003 held in Brazil http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/brazil03/participants

May

28-May Conference Harvard hosts the Third Open Source Content Management Conference (OSCOM 3) http://www.oscom.org/events/oscom-3/

June

30-Jun Conference The 2003 iLaw Program is held at Stanford http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/stanford03/participants

October

5-Oct Conference Winer Distinguished blogger and Berkman fellow Dave Winer hosts BloggerCon I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BloggerCon

December

Berkman Winer RSS 2.0 Specification is gifted to the Berkman Center from UserLand Software http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/about.html

2004

February

5-Feb Berkman Glasser John Palfrey speaks at the first meeting of the Harvard-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/cyberscholar_working_group

April

17-Apr Conference Winer Dave Winer and the Berkman Center host BloggerCon II

May

13-May Conference The 2004 iLaw Program is held at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/harvard_2004

December

9-Dec Conference Berkman hosts the Internet & Society 2004 (IS2k4) Conference, studying the impact of the Internet on elections http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2k4/home

13-Dec Conference The 2004 iLaw Program is held in Eurasia http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/eurasia_2004

2005

March

18-Mar Conference MacKinnon Berkman hosts a conference on "Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility" http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/webcred/