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SERVICES & TECH There is a major denial of service attack against high profile Web sites in February 2000. The Love Letter worm infects computers around the world during May 2000. There will be approximately 3.6 million high speed cable Internet users by the end of the year. (Source: Cahners In-Stat Group) "The Love Bug: Few Take an Online Sick Day Due to Virus." Pew Internet & American Life Project, May 19, 2000. "Wireless: The Next Wave?" Presstime, June 2000. On June 30, 2000, "President Clinton used an electronic card and his dog's name as a password to 'e-sign' into law a bill that makes electronic signatures as valid as their ink counterparts....The act, approved overwhelmingly earlier in June by both houses of the U.S. Congress, eliminates legal barriers to using electronic technology to form and sign contracts." (Sources: Reuters, CNN) Ads with barcodes for the CueCat reader begin appearing in major publications such as Forbes, Time, and The Dallas Morning News. The small plastic CueCat, which is shaped like a cat, connects to computers and allows readers to link to an Internet URL by scanning a barcode appearing in a print ad or article. (CueCat is a commercial failure.) Sony releases its PlayStation2 video game console. "Wired Workers: Who They Are and What They're Doing Online." Pew Internet & American Life Project, Sept. 3, 2000. "Weblogs: A History and Perspective." Rebecca's Pocket, Sept. 7, 2000. "Worry About the Worm: Cousins to computer viruses, worms can cause more problems." PC World, Sept. 22, 2000. "New Internet Users: What They Do Online, What They Don't and Implications for the Net's Future." Pew Internet & American Life Project, Sept. 25, 2000. "Usenet Sale: Sounds to Silence?" Wired, Oct. 25, 2000. In November 2000, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approves seven new website domain names: .biz, .info, .name, .pro, .museum, aero, and .coop. The number of American adults with Internet access grew from about 88 million to more than 104 million in the second half of 2000. The average American Internet user spends 4.2 hours a week on the Internet. (Source: Pew Internet Project) "Dot-Com Is Dead; Long Live Dot-Com!" TheStreet.com, Nov. 3, 2000. "Invasion of the 'Blog': A Parallel Web of Personal Journals." New York Times, Dec. 28, 2000. Additional Resources "The UCLA Internet Report: Year One." Center for the Digital Future.		THE MEDIA News Example: Jan. 1, 2000 -- "The New Millennium." (Source: Poynter's Links to the News) "AOL and Time Warner to Merge." CNN, Jan. 10, 2000. "Rupert Discovers the Internet." Wired, March 2000. "Cyber News." Video of Net Cafe TV show. Internet Archive, March 3, 2000. News Example: April 22, 2000 -- "Elian Gonzalez Case." (Source: Poynter's Links to the News) In May 2000 Stanford University and the Poynter Institute release results from their Eyetrack study on Internet news-reading behavior. "Internet Sapping Broadcast News Audience." Pew Research Center, June 11, 2000. "Enjoy the Ride While It Lasts." CJR, July/August 2000. "Surviving in Cyberspace: With the old euphoria a distant memory, what lessons have emerged to help shape the future of online journalism?" AJR, Sept. 2000. "E-Commerce: The Glitter Fades." Presstime, Nov. 2000. "Election Day was the Internet's time fo shine, a chance for the medium to enlighten Americans in ways television could not. But ultimately, the Net faced the same pitfalls as television: Web sites could not say for sure who will be the next president." (Source: "Millions Online for Gore, Bush Race." AP, Nov. 8, 2000.) (2000 Poynter project - 1) (2000 Poynter project - 2) (Internet Archive Report) (CJR stories) "Internet Election News Audience Seeks Convenience, Familiar Names." Pew Research Center, Dec. 3, 2000. Awards The 2000 Editor & Publisher EPpy awards (Archived list of winners) The 2000 Online News Association's Online Journalism Awards (Archived list of winners) (Archived list of finalists) The 2000 NAA Digital Edge Awards (Archived list of winners) 2000 Webby Awards (Archived list of winners) Statistics The America Online dial-up service has 25,000,000 subscribers. (Source: AOL) "More than 1,200 North American daily newspapers have launched online services." "Worldwide, there are more than 4,000 daily, weekly and other newspapers online." (Source: NAA's 2000 Facts about Newspapers) There are approximately 1,305 television stations with sites on the Internet or dial-up services. (Source: Editor & Publisher) Additional Resources See Also: New Media Bibliography and other Poynter resources about online journalism

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