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BackRub
Google, begins as a search engine known as backrub. its creation occured at this point in history. -
Great Firewall of China
The Great Firewall Project is started to be put up five years later. -
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Golden Sheild/ Great Firewall of China Project
The timespan of the project from beginning to end. -
Chinese Users reaches 111 million
The amount of active users went from 94 million a year to 111 million a year -
Golden Shield Project
The Great Firewall of China is a censorship project by China. It went into affect now. -
Code Jam in China
Our first Code Jam in China concludes in Beijing. The winner, graduate student Chuan Xu, is one of more than 13,000 registrants. -
Google begins operations in china.
Google aimed to strike a balance between its stated goal of making the world's information widely available and the requirement that all Internet companies doing business in China adhere to government regulations regarding censorship. -
Chinese Users
Chinese internet users jumped from to 298 million between 2007 and 2008. That is an increase of 42% -
Previous Google Outages in China
Google was previously inaccessable to the people of china. -
Chinese crackdowns on Internet
The live feed from President Obamba's inauguration is cut off after mentioning of Communism. The translations have no mention of Communism either. -
Google Treatens to Withdrawl From China
According to the New York Times, Chinese offiicals have warned Google's partners they had to abide by Chinese laws on censorship. Google threatened last January it would pull out of China if the government continued to force it to censor Internet search results. -
Registration
News websites require users to register their true identites to post comments. -
China's Facebook users
As of this date, there were only 14,000 facebook users in China. The Chinese users have other websites that the government provides that is closely watched to make sure that nothing big is happening. -
Gmail account attacks
Following a targeted cyber attack on Gmail accounts emanating from China in December, Google announced on Jan. 12 that it intended to give all of its users open access to the Internet. the attackers' primary goal was to access Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. While two accounts were hacked, the accessed information was limited to the date the account was created and subject lines, not the content of any emails. -
First Attacks
Google is attacked by the Chinese government. The goal of this attack was to access the accounts of known Chinese human rights activists. -
Google announcement
Google announces that it intends to give all of its users open access to the Internet.
