Internet radio

The first Internet radio station is developed by Carl Malamud in 1993. Malamud's station uses an experimental technology called MBONE (Multicast Backbone) to multicast its radio program to Internet listeners. On November 7, 1994, WXYC 89.3 FM Chapel Hill, North Carolina and WREK 91.1 FM Atlanta, Georgia become the first existing radio stations to broadcast on the Internet.
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Spacewar

The world's first computerized video game, Spacewar, is developed by Steve Russell on a DEC PDP-1 computer at MIT in 1962. Spacewar is a multiplayer space-combat simulation inspired by Doc Smith's "Lensman" science fiction novels. The game has been essentially under constant development since 1962 and is still played today.
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Identity theft

In November 2002, Federal investigators charge three men in the largest case of identity theft in U.S. history. The case involves a massive identity theft scheme with more than 30,000 victims and and over $2.7 million in losses. The thefts take place within Teledata Communications, a Long Island, New York company that provides computer access to consumer credit reports.
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Election results

CBS Television is the first to use a computer to predict election results during the 1952 Presidential contest. By 8:30 election night, a UNIVAC computer predicts an electoral vote of 438 for Dwight D. Eisenhower and 93 for Adlai Stevenson. These numbers appear dubious to the CBS news staff and are not reported to viewers. The official electoral vote: 442 for Eisenhower, 89 for Stevenson.
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UNIX Programmer's Manual

The first edition of the UNIX Programmer's Manual is released on November 3, 1971. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie compile the manual two years after the two Bell Telephone Labs programmers develop the original UNIX operating system. The manual is divided into seven sections and includes over sixty commands.
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NET Act

A twenty-two-year old senior at the University of Oregon is the first person to be convicted under the No Internet Theft Act (NET Act) in November 1999. The student is sentenced to two years of probation for making copies of software available for download from a university web site. A related 1999 study estimates that software piracy will account for nearly $12 billion in lost revenue for the software industry.
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Dr. Dobb's

Dennis Allison and Bob Albrecht publish the "Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia" in late 1975. The name "Dobb's" comes from an attempt to put together Allison and Albrecht's first names. Shortened to Dr. Dobb's Journal, the newsletter evolves into the highly popular monthly publication for computer programmers and developers.
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