Tor is free software for anonymous communication online, which sends internet traffic through a series of volunteer-run relays so that no single point knows both the user and the destination. The idea of onion routing, which Tor uses, was developed in the 1990s at the United States Naval Research Laboratory. The code was released as free software in the early 2000s, and its main developers included Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson. The non-profit Tor Project was established in 2006, and the Tor Browser later made the system easy to use. It is used by journalists, activists and ordinary people who want to avoid censorship and surveillance, but it has also been used for illegal activity.
Before and after
- 13 August 2002Discovery of Laomedeia
- 14 August 2002Discovery of Neso
- 22 August 2002Establishment of Tumucumaque National Park
- 24 August 2002Publication of Estonian Wikipedia
- 20 September 2002Release of Tor
- October 2002Release of Chinese Wikipedia
- from October 2002 to January 2003Effacer le tableau
- 11 October 2002Release of Korean Wikipedia
- 26 October 2002Moscow theater hostage crisis
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- December 1952Discovery of fermium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
- June 2002Discovery of oganesson
The era
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