Significant Events
- February 13, 1998: NTK launched the Falco competition, named after the rock star Falco who died that week. Readers were encouraged to mail their predictions of which technology companies would fail (dot-bombs), 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.
- December 11, 1998: NTK launch STAND.org.uk (now defunct), a UK campaign group lobbying for fair UK internet policy.
- February 1, 2000: NTK launch Kevin Warwick Watch (now defunct) in reaction to Kevin Warwick's sudden popularity in the mainstream press.
- September 1, 2000: NTK launch 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.
- December 1, 2000: NTK and STAND launch "Fax your MP" (now part of WriteToThem). They also launch their own ironic t-shirt sales site, NTKMart (now defunct).
- August 3, 2001: NTK publish the now infamous "dancemonkeyboy" video of Steve Ballmer dancing to Gloria Estefan music at a developer conference. NTK.net
- June 8, 2002: NTK host their own conference; X-COM 2002
- March 28, 2003: NTK launch Snackspot
- June 6, 2004: NTK host another conference, NotCon '04 (http://www.notcon04.com now defunct)
- August 6, 2004: NTK launch dohthehumanity.com (now defunct)
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