1996

This is a timeline of events that occurred in .
==January==
===January 19th===
* Ryley Summers is born in San Francisco, California.
==February==
===February 26th===
* Phoebe Watson is born in Sacramento, California.
==June==
===June 23rd===
* Kyle Moore is born in Oakland, California.
==July==
===July 27th===
* Halford Williams, an MIT undergrad, forms uD0gs; a secretive hacking group. Initially the group begins as a mere hobby with his coding friends to discuss their interests in Star Trek and Dungeons & Dragons, but in the same year, Halford attends a lecture by - and later communicates with - famed professor Noam Chomsky and begins reading anarchist/communist literature. Halford uses the group as a secluded haven to discuss such radical ideas.
==November==
===November 23rd===
* Talia Widelski is born in Oakland, California.