The Brisbane Lions were officially launched on 1 November 1996, joining the national competition in 1997.

In 1996 Jones International University was launched and claims to be the first fully online university accredited by a regional accrediting association in the US.

Former documentary filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda launched an acclaimed feature career with Maborosi ( 1996 ) and After Life ( 1999 ).

Pre-paid GSM SIM cards were launched in 1996 and worldwide GSM subscribers passed 100 million in 1998.

* In April 1996, after continued Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, the Israeli armed forces launched Operation Grapes of Wrath, which was intended to wipe out Hezbollah's base in southern Lebanon.

The product, named BoKlok was launched in Sweden in 1996 in a joint venture with Skanska.

* John B. Ford ( born 1963 ), English horror writer and publisher whose fiction focuses on death and madness ; launched magazine, Terror Tales, in 1996 and Rainfall Records and Books in 2001

Sainsbury's launched its Reward Card in 1996.

* Mercury ( TV series ), an Australian series launched in 1996

Later, its 2-D graphical descendant Legends of Kesmai was launched on AOL in 1996.

Norway ( ratified the convention in 1996 ), Russia ( ratified in 1997 ), Canada ( ratified in 2003 ) and Denmark ( ratified in 2004 ) have all launched projects to base claims that certain areas of Arctic continental shelves should be subject to their sole sovereign exploitation.

In 1996, PepsiCo launched the highly successful Pepsi Stuff marketing strategy.

Peres also visited Qatar in 1996, when he launched the new Israeli trade bureau there.

The Brown Foundation Challenge, a fund-raising program designed to encourage annual gifts, was launched in 1976 and ended in 1996 having raised $ 185 million ($ million ).

In a government-led initiative to connect the island in a high-speed broadband network using various mediums such as fibre, DSL and cable, the Singapore ONE project was formally announced in June 1996, and commercially launched in June 1998.

In March 1996, Scientific American launched its own website that includes articles from current and past issues, online-only features, daily news, weird science, special reports, trivia, " Scidoku " and more.

The coin was officially launched at Ben ’ s Deli in Montreal on February 19, 1996.

VBScript began as part of the Microsoft Windows Script Technologies, launched in 1996.

These devices were launched on March 10, 1996.

An MPD thruster was tested on board the Japanese Space Flyer Unit as part of EPEX ( Electric Propulsion EXperiment ) that was launched March 18, 1995 and retrieved by space shuttle mission STS-72 January 20, 1996.

After leaving Take That, Williams launched his solo career starting off in 1996 by covering George Michael's " Freedom ", the single reached number two in the UK Singles Chart.

However, the network's parent company owns the Fox News Channel, which was launched in 1996 and is now available through virtually all cable and satellite providers in the United States.

After FNC launched in 1996, the network tried again in 1998 with Fox Files, hosted by Fox News anchors Catherine Crier and Jon Scott, as well as a team of correspondents.

In 1996, Russia launched Mars 96, its first interplanetary mission since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, however it failed to depart Earth orbit.

The Italian-Dutch satellite BeppoSAX, launched in April 1996, provided the first accurate positions of gamma-ray bursts, allowing follow-up observations and identification of the sources.

Beginning with Sans Soleil, he developed a deep interest in digital technology, which led to his film Level 5 ( 1996 ) and Immemory ( 1998, 2008 ), an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, produced for the Centre Pompidou ( French language version ) and from Exact Change ( English version ).

In 1996, CUC International, a membership-based consumer services conglomerate, aggressively sought to expand into interactive entertainment and, in February 1996, offered to buy Sierra at a price of approximately $ 1. 5 billion.

* Star Trek: Klingon ( 1996 ) – interactive movie

After taking time off to deal with the tour's resulting burnout and other personal issues, the band released Promised Land in October 1994 ( a companion CD-ROM, featuring a Promised Land-themed game and other interactive features, was released in March 1996 ).

Warschauer's high expectations in 1996 have still not been fulfilled, and currently there is an increasing tendency for teachers to go down the route proposed by Jones, making use of a variety of new tools such as corpora and concordancers, interactive whiteboards and applications for online communication.

In 1996 Microvitec were suffering significantly in the sector and the rights to the Creator application were sold to newly formed interactive whiteboard manufacturer Promethean after Mike Lawton ( the then Promethean MD ) saw Creator demonstrated at Ceebit in the same year.

In 1996, Bruno Bonnell's Infogrames embarked on an acquisition campaign that would last seven years and cost more than $ 500 million ; the objective was to become the world's leading interactive entertainment publisher.

* 1996 Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ( CDA ), which states in part that " No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider ".

During 1995 and 1996, he directed singer Björk's animated music video for the song I Miss You, and created Weekend Pussy Hunt for MSN, which was billed as " the world's first interactive web-based cartoon.

On June 21, 1996, Bobby Rabyd ( aka Robert Arellano ) published the World Wide Web's first interactive novel, Sunshine 69, with navigable maps of settings, a nonlinear calendar of scenes, and a character " suitcase " enabling readers to try on nine different points of view.

For its first 5 years ( 1992 – 1996 ), each issue of Protein Science included a supplement on floppy disk of interactive, 3D kinemage graphics to illustrate many of the articles, plus the Mage software ( free, open source, multi-platform ) to display them ; kinemage supplementary material is still available on the journal web site.

The Ars Electronica Center opened in 1996 as a prototype of a “ Museum of the Future .” Its mission is to utilize interactive forms of mediation to facilitate the general public ’ s encounter with virtual reality, digital networks and modern media.

In 1996, Grievous Angels released Waiting for the Cage, a concept album about life in Northern Ontario mining towns which also included an interactive CD-ROM feature.

It was the first interactive live Punk Karaoke band since 1996.

The comic book was created by Douglas Gayeton, with artwork by Matt Rockman, in 1996 while both worked at a New York interactive company called Sunshine Digital.

Also in early 1996, Nu Millennia Media released Self Portrait, which included five of Walker's songs in an interactive CD-ROM format and 30 minutes of video footage.

So Far is an interactive fiction game written in 1996 by Andrew Plotkin.

In a bid to steer clear of Fox's legal department after a conflict in 1996, the site contains no multimedia or interactive features, preferring to focus on documenting the show through textual material.

The Motley Fool gained renown for its early recommendations of stocks, such as America Online ( AOL ) and Amazon. com, and was featured in a cover story for Fortune magazine ( 1996 ) about the emergence of online interactive discussion as a new form of investment research.

Pekka Kossila was in charge of creating economical interactive TV formats which were the core of the channel when it started its test broadcasts in November 1996.

* Net Surf Central ( 1995 – 1996 )-An interactive database of the cool Web sites of 1996

He had articulated in 1996 how interactive media — including the internet — could transform the way we build brands and communicate to consumers in a November 1996 Harvard Business Review article, " The Future of Interactive Marketing ".