a dog's life

JonBenet's demise is listed as the notable crime of 1996 in memorializing the history of Microsoft over at it's Channel 9. That year we were using Internet Explorer version 2.0 while MS and America Online (AOL) formed a partnership. It seems like a lifetime ago, some 84 dog years and the same if you happen to work in technology. Odds are it may seem just as long for those waiting for answers and followers of JonBenet's case--

The History of Microsoft - 1996
July 7, 2009
By tina10

"...1996 Revenue/Headcount

The 1996 fiscal year-end sales total $8,671,000,000.
The 1996 fiscal Year employee headcount totals 20,561 people...

In the World:

Designed to create small programs that travel over computer networks as the user needs them, Sun Microsystems's Java programming language is licensed to every major hardware and software company...

TV: Seinfeld, E.R., and Friends are among the top television programs. Spin City, Everybody Loves Raymond, and 3rd Rock from the Sun premiere.

Arrest: “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.

Chess: IBM’s Deep Blue defeats world champion Gary Kasparov in the first game of a six-game playoff. Kasparov goes on to win the series, scoring 4-2.

Olympics: The Summer Olympics in Atlanta are struck by tragedy when a bomb explodes in Centennial Olympic Park, killing two and injuring over a hundred. Right-wing extremist Eric Robert Rudolph is later convicted for the attack.

Computers: Palm launches the first successful PDA, the Palm Pilot.

Science: Dolly the sheep is born, becoming the first successful clone of a mammal from an adult cell.

Crime: Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found murdered in Boulder, Colorado. No one was ever arrested for the crime.

Internet: The Onion launches its online satire site..."