Editing Need to Know (newsletter) (section)

==Significant events==
;February 1998:NTK launched the Falco competition, named after the rock star [[Falco (musician)|Falco]] who died that week. Readers were encouraged to email their predictions of which technology companies would fail ([[dot-bomb]]s), and NTK would proclaim "FALCO" with the list of accurate tipsters when announcing that companies had actually failed. This practise predated [[Fucked Company]] by two years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntk.net/1998/02/13/ |title=Need To Know 1998-02-13 |date=1998-02-13}}</ref>
;December 1998: NTK launched {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20000304001951/http://www.stand.org.uk/ STAND.org.uk]}} (now defunct), a UK campaign group lobbying for fair UK internet policy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntk.net/1998/12/11/ |title=Need To Know 1998-12-11 |date=1998-12-11}}</ref>
;February 2000: NTK launched [https://web.archive.org/web/20000526101815/http://www.kevinwarwick.org.uk/ ''Kevin Warwick Watch''] (now defunct) in reaction to [[Kevin Warwick]]'s sudden popularity in the mainstream press.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntk.net/2000/02/18/ |title=Need To Know 2000-02-18 |date=2000-02-18}}</ref>
;September 2000: NTK launched a "drily ironic t-shirt competition", where readers can come up with amusing T-shirt designs and NTK can sell the results back to them.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntk.net/2000/09/01/ |title=Need To Know 2000-09-01 |date=2000-09-01}}</ref>
;December 2000: NTK launched "Fax your MP", now known as [[WriteToThem]]. They also launched their own ironic T-shirt sales site [https://web.archive.org/web/20010517004454/http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/ntk/ ''NTKMart''] (now defunct) with the first winner of their competition: "I got £80million in venture capital for my .com idea and all I have left is this lousy t-shirt".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntk.net/2000/12/01/ |title=Need To Know 2000-12-01 |date=2000-12-01}}</ref>
;August 2001: NTK published the now infamous [http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html "dancemonkeyboy" video] of [[Steve Ballmer]] dancing to [[Gloria Estefan]] music at a developer conference.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntk.net/2001/08/03/ |title=Need To Know 2001-08-03 |date=2001-08-03}}</ref>
;June 2002: NTK hosted their own conference, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040926052238/http://www.xcom2002.com/ X-COM 2002].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntk.net/2002/06/07/ |title=Need To Know 2002-06-07 |date=2002-06-07}}</ref>
;March 2003: NTK launched [https://web.archive.org/web/20041119055417/http://www.snackspot.org.uk/ snackspot.org.uk] (now defunct).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntk.net/2003/03/28/ |title=Need To Know 2003-03-28 |date=2003-03-28}}</ref>
;June 2004: NTK hosted another conference, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040704081524/http://www.xcom2002.com/nc04/ NotCon '04].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntk.net/2004/06/04/ |title=Need To Know 2004-06-04 |date=2004-06-04}}</ref>
;August 2004: NTK launched [https://web.archive.org/web/20040806160351/http://www.xcom2002.com/doh/viewer.php dohthehumanity.com] (now defunct).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntk.net/2004/08/06/ |title=Need To Know 2004-08-06 |date=2004-08-06}}</ref>
;September 2005: NTK launched the [[Open Rights Group]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntk.net/2005/09/02/ |title=Need To Know 2005-09-02 |date=2005-09-02}}</ref>