2012 to Present Timeline Outline

The Anatomy of an Internet Attack by "Anonymous"
(2012)

Surprisingly Active 21st Century Trade in Medieval Manuscript Books of Hours
(2012)

42,182,000 Copies Printed Semi-Monthly in 194 Languages
(January 2012)

Gelatin and Calcium in the Earliest Paper Was Responsible for its Longevity
(January 2012)

Sales of eBook Readers in 2011
(January 5, 2012)

Transforming Google into a Search Engine that Understands Not Only Content but People and Relationships
(January 10, 2012)

The Cost of Sequencing a Human Genome Drops to $1000
(January 10, 2012)

The Smallest Magnetic Data Storage Unit Uses Just 12 Atoms per Bit
(January 13, 2012)

Slides of Fossils Collected by Darwin on the Beagle Rediscovered
(January 17, 2012)

Major Websites Go Dark to Protest Web Censorship Legislation
(January 17, 2012)

Apple Introduces iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U
(January 19, 2012)

Discovery of the Afghan Genizah
(January 23, 2012)

Technological Unemployment: Are Robots Replacing Workers?
(January 23, 2012 – January 13, 2013)

Facebook has 845,000,000 Users
(February 1, 2012)

Creative Destruction of the Book Trade by Amazon?
(February 8, 2012)

The ILAB Launches a Mobil App
(March 2012)

After Digitizing Over 20 Million Books Expansion of the Google Books Project Begins to Slow
(March 9, 2012)

The Encyclopedia Britannica Ends Print Publication
(March 14, 2012)

Nearly 50% of U.S. Mobile Subscribers Own Smartphones
(March 29, 2012)

U.S. Justice Department Sues Major Publishers Over the Pricing of eBooks; Amazon Wins
(April 12, 2012)

Pulitzer Prize in Journalism Awarded to an Internet-Only Publication
(April 16, 2012)

Improving the Research Potential of ESTC
(April 17, 2012)

"Companies that have existed for centuries could be gone in a generation unless they make a single radical change."
(April 18, 2012)

Massive Thefts from the Girolamini Library in Naples; Auction Aborted
(April 19, 2012)

Using a Densitometer to Measure Usage of Medieval Books of Hours
(April 23, 2012)

During Testimony over a Phone Hacking Scandal Rupert Murdoch Predicts the End of Print News Media
(April 26, 2012)

Microsoft Invests in Barnes & Noble's Nook eBook Reader Division
(April 30, 2012)

What Makes Spoken Lines in Movies Memorable
(April 30, 2012)

Digitizing the Oldest Monastic Library
(May 2012)

Harvard & M.I.T. to Offer Free Online Courses
(May 2, 2012)

The First Annual Report Issued by a Museum in an eBook Format
(May 7, 2012)

How eBooks Are Changing Fiction Writing and Publishing
(May 12, 2012)

The First Functioning Brain-Computer Interface for Quadriplegics
(May 16, 2012)

Google Introduces the Knowledge Graph
(May 16, 2012)

Flame: A Virus that Collects Information
(May 28, 2012)

Growing Adoption of the eBook Format in the U. S.
(May 29, 2012)

The First Book Stored in DNA and then Read
(August 16, 2012)

The Book History Online Database, Previously a Free Service, Becomes an Expensive Private Research Source
(September 3, 2012)

The Human Genome is Packed with At Least 4,000,000 Gene Switches
(September 6, 2012)

The World's Smallest Book Requires a Scanning Electron Microscope to be Seen
(September 25, 2012)

A 3D Virtual Reality Reader for eBooks
(October 2012)

Online Advertising is Expected to Surpass Print Advertising
(October 2012)

Book Mountain + Library Quarter in Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
(October 4, 2012)

2.5 Quintillion Bytes of Data Each Day
(October 23, 2012)

Windows 8, With Touch Screen Features, is Released
(October 26, 2012)

Penguin to Merge with Random House
(October 29, 2012)

$2.6 Billion Spent on Ads on Phones and Tablets in 2012
(October 29, 2012)

Historicizing Big Data
(November 2012)

A Natural History of Data
(November 2012)

Google Has 67% of the U.S. Search Market and Collects 75% of U.S. Search Ad Dollars
(November 4, 2012)

eBooks Accounted for 22% of All Book Spending in Second Quarter of 2012
(November 5, 2012)

The First Teleportation from One Macroscopic Object to Another
(November 8, 2012)

Penguin Books Introduces a New eBook Lending Program
(November 19, 2012)

Memcomputing Outlined
(November 19, 2012)

Coursera Enrolls Nearly Two Million Students from 196 Countries in Online Courses within its First Year
(November 20, 2012)

The CEO of Barnes & Noble No Longer Reads Physical Books
(November 20, 2012)

"Anonymous" Plans to Shut Down Syrian Government Websites in Response to Countrywide Internet Blackout
(November 29 – December 1, 2012)

U.S. Bill to Stengthen Privacy Protection for Emails
(November 29, 2012)

100% of U.S. Public Libraries Now Offer Public Access to the Internet
(December 2012)

@Pontifex Sends First Tweet
(December 12, 2012)

eBook Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines
(December 17, 2012)

"How the antiquarian book market has evolved for life on the web"
(December 19, 2012)

After Cell Phones With Cameras, Android Cameras- Without Cellphones- are Introduced
(December 19, 2012)

Computer Graphic Animation Indistinguishable from Nature
(December 22, 2012)

With the Decline of Brick & Mortar Bookstores Public Libraries are Becoming More Commercial
(December 27, 2012)

The Secret Race to Save Manuscripts in Timbuktu and Djenne
(December 27, 2012)

"Libraries Have Shifted from Warehouses of Books & Materials to Become Participatory Sites of Culture and Learning"
(December 28, 2012)

The Year In Graphics and Interactives from The New York Times
(December 30, 2012)

An Infographic About Tatooing in the Form of an Elaborate Tatoo
(2013)

"Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories"
(January 2013)

The Library of Congress Has Archived 170 Billion Tweets
(January 4, 2013)

Titian's Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro is Rediscovered
(January 7, 2013)

"Information Technology Dividends Outpace All Others"
(January 11, 2013)

The First Use of Quantum Dots in a Mass Produced Consumer Electronics Product
(January 14, 2013)

The Bexar County, Texas BiblioTech: a Library Devoid of Physical Books
(January 14, 2013)

The Youngest Person to Create a Mobil Game App
(January 17, 2013)

Online Reviews Used as Attack Weapons to Kill Sales of a Book
(January 20, 2013)

An Innovative Interactive Museum Gallery Space with the Largest Multi-Touch Screen in the United States
(January 21, 2013)

The Pew Internet Report on Library Services in the Digital Age
(January 22, 2013)

Jane Austin and Walter Scott Were the Two Most Influential Novelists of the 19th Century: A Discovery Made Through Digital Humanities Research
(January 26, 2013)

The FDA Approves the First Medical Robot for Hospital Use
(January 26, 2013)

Part of Library of the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu is Burned
(January 28 – January 30, 2013)

"The Human Brain Project" is Launched, with the Goal of Creating a Supercomputer-Based Simulation of the Human Brain
(January 28, 2013)

Making the iPhone 5 Look and Feel Like a Traditional Camera: the gizmon iCa case
(February 2013)

The First 3D Printing Pen; Drawing Enters the Third Dimension
(February 2013)

Selling Off Print Media to Allow Fast-Growing Film & Television Assets to Grow Unencumbered by Legacy Print Businesses
(February 14, 2013)

Billboard Starts to Include YouTube Streams in its Calculation of the Most Popular Songs of the Week
(February 20, 2013)

Nielsen to Measure Television Viewing on Internet and Mobile Devices
(February 21, 2013)

Drone Pilots Experience Stress Possibly Greater than Actual Combat Pilots
(February 23, 2013)

Smartphone Interactive Reading Device Will Track Eyes to Scroll Pages
(March 4, 2013)

The Historic Vatican Library to be Digitized in 2.8 Petabytes
(March 7, 2013)

Time Warner Spins off its Print Media Division, Time Inc.
(March 13, 2013)

eBooks Represented 22.55% of U.S. New Book Sales in 2012
(March 28, 2013)

"The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens"
(April 11, 2013)

The Digital Public Library of America is Launched
(April 18, 2013)

How the "The Brazen Bibliophiles of Tumbuktu" Saved Manuscripts from Terrorists
(April 25, 2013)

On the Twentieth Anniversary CERN Restores the First Website
(April 30, 2013)