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===Website=== CNN launched its website, CNN.com (initially known as ''CNN Interactive''), on August 30, 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/timeline/|title=CNN Interactive Timeline: May β December, 1995|website=CNN|access-date=September 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924172706/http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/timeline/|archive-date=September 24, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The site attracted growing interest over its first decade and is now one of the most popular news websites in the world. The widespread growth of blogs, [[social media]] and [[user-generated content]] have influenced the site, and blogs, in particular, have focused CNN's previously scattershot online offerings, most noticeably in the development and launch of [[CNN Pipeline]] in late 2005.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} In April 2009, CNN.com ranked third place among online global news sites in unique users in the US, according to Nielsen/NetRatings; this is an increase of 11% over the previous year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.editorandpublisher.com/category/news/?vnu_content_id=1003975048|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131054901/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003975048|url-status=dead|title=News β Editor & Publisher Magazine|archive-date=January 31, 2010}}</ref> CNN Pipeline was the name of a paid subscription service, its corresponding website, and a content delivery client that provided streams of live video from up to four sources (or "pipes"), on-demand access to CNN stories and reports, and optional pop-up "news alerts" to computer users. The installable client was available to users of [[personal computer|PCs]] running [[Microsoft Windows]]. There was also a browser-based "web client" that did not require installation. The service was discontinued in July 2007, and was replaced with a free streaming service.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/help/pipeline/message.html|title=Important Message Regarding CNN Pipeline|website=CNN|access-date=September 19, 2020|archive-date=October 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026110410/https://edition.cnn.com/help/pipeline/message.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On April 18, 2008, CNN.com was targeted by Chinese hackers in retaliation for the channel's coverage on the [[2008 Tibetan unrest]]. CNN reported that they took preventive measures after news broke of the impending attack.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/18/cnn.websites|title=CNN website targeted|work=CNN|date=April 18, 2008|access-date=October 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015061607/http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/18/cnn.websites/|archive-date=October 15, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Thomas |first=Claburn |title=CNN Faces Cyberattack Over Tibet Coverage |url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/cybercrime/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207400699 |date=2008 |access-date=March 1, 2022 |work=[[InformationWeek]] |language=en |archive-date=April 23, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423172902/http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/cybercrime/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207400699 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The company was honored at the 2008 [[Technology & Engineering Emmy Award]]s for development and implementation of an integrated and portable IP-based live, edit and store-and-forward digital news gathering (DNG) system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2008/01/08/cnn-awarded-technical-emmy |title=CNN Awarded Technical Emmy|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721045010/http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2008/01/08/cnn-awarded-technical-emmy|archive-date=July 21, 2011}}</ref> The first use of what would later win CNN this award was in April 2001 when CNN correspondent Lisa Rose Weaver<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uiowa.edu/jmc/faculty/weaver.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629111536/http://www.uiowa.edu/jmc/faculty/weaver.html|url-status=dead|title=Lisa Rose Weaver|archive-date=June 29, 2011}}</ref> covered, and was detained,<ref>{{cite news|title=CNN crew released|url=http://archives.cnn.com:80/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/04/12/cnn.crew.detained/index.html|access-date=November 14, 2017|work=CNN|date=April 12, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312183129/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/04/12/cnn.crew.detained/index.html|archive-date=March 12, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> for the release of the [[United States Navy|US Navy]] crew of a damaged electronic surveillance plane after the [[Hainan Island incident]]. The technology consisted of a videophone produced by 7E Communications Ltd of London, UK.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015210439/http://www.privateline.com/war/videophone.html|archive-date=October 15, 2013|url=http://www.privateline.com/war/videophone.html|title=Videophone Technology|publisher=Privateline.com|date=October 9, 2001|access-date=March 10, 2016}}</ref> This DNG workflow is used today by the network to receive material worldwide using an [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] [[MacBook Pro]], various [[wikt:prosumer#Etymology 2|prosumer]] and professional digital cameras, software from Streambox Inc., and [[BGAN]] terminals from [[Hughes Network Systems]].{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} On October 24, 2009, CNN launched a new version of the CNN.com website; the revamped site included the addition of a new "sign up" option, in which users can create their own username and profile, and a new "CNN Pulse" (beta) feature, along with a new red color theme.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/relaunch|title=Welcome to the New CNN.com β Interactive tour|work=CNN|access-date=February 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227043124/http://www.cnn.com/interactive/relaunch/|archive-date=February 27, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> However, most of the news stories archived on the website were deleted.
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