Web History

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018. — #20yrsago SARS: The Mystery Illness https://web.archive.org/web/20030408021713/http://www.cbc.ca/news/sars/ #20yrsago KPMG makes hysterical, self-serving wardriving report http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2885339.stm #20yrsago Facts don’t violate trademarks https://web.archive.org/web/20030803080408/https://www.eff.org/IP/20030328_taxes-com_pr.php #15yrsago British Airways loses 15–20,000 bags since Thursday at supremely b0rked Heathrow Terminal 5 https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7320771.stm…

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Shirky: Why 3G is doomed https://web.archive.org/web/20030602075613/http://shirky.com/writings/permanet.html #20yrsago Fed snoops want to wiretap the Internet https://www.theregister.com/2003/03/27/fbi_seeks_internet_telephony_surveillance/ #15yrsago Chase Mortgage leaked memo shows “cheats and tricks” used to give out unqualified mortgages https://web.archive.org/web/20080330074501/https://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/120658650589950.xml&coll=7

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018. — #20yrsago Mexico sells out its future by extending copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20030313230051/https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_03.shtml #15yrsago New US Cyber-Security Czar has no cyber-security experience https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031903125.html #15yrsago How CBC torrented a TV show https://www.last100.com/2008/03/26/inside-story-the-making-of-a-legal-tv-torrent/

2003, 2008, 2018. — #20yrsago Google’s Sergey Brin at PC Forum https://craphound.com/google.html #20yrsago Social Software panel at PC Forum https://craphound.com/socialsoftware.html #15yrsago Clay Shirky’s Harvard talk: Here Comes Everybody https://web.archive.org/web/20161226034209/http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/events/Misc/2008-02-28_shirky/2008-02-28_shirky320web.mp4 #5yrsago London police finally admit they fed intel to UK construction cartel to build illegal blacklist of labour organisers https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/23/officers-likely-to-have-passed-personal-files-to-blacklisters-says-met…

2003, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Talk radio is the province of lying demagogues, bigots and fools https://web.archive.org/web/20030402131244/http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/079/oped/Outrageous_times_for_talk_radio+.shtml #10yrsago Bruce Sterling’s closing SXSW keynote: disruption and destruction https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/bruce-sterling-closing-remarks #10yrsago How the Digital Millennium Copyright Act punishes people with disabilities https://slate.com/technology/2013/03/dmca-copyright-reform-u-s-law-makes-digital-media-inaccessible.html…

2002, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Revolution is Not an AOL Keyword https://web.archive.org/web/20030322155720/http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/000748.html #20yrsago United Way will provide cheap WiFi and PCs to poor people in Philly https://web.archive.org/web/20050316131603/www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7404562 #15yrsago State Department employees canned for snooping in Obama’s passport records https://web.archive.org/web/20080322110151/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23736254/

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018. — #20yrsago Indigineous prior-art database to fight bio-piracy https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2858253.stm #20yrsago Disney parks are no-fly zones https://www.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/03/18/airspace.restrictions/ #20yrsago MIT Press takes gutsy fair use stand https://web.archive.org/web/20030313230051/https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_03.shtml #15yrsago Every issue of Elfquest free — oldest independent comic goes online https://web.archive.org/web/20080319195133/https://elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics3.html…

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Aaron Swartz warns that Danger is repeating the Newton’s restrictive SDK licensing mistakes https://memex.craphound.com/2003/03/18/danger-repeating-apples-newton-mistakes-with-restrictive-sdk/ #20yrsago HK researchers identify mysterious, deadly respiratory disease https://web.archive.org/web/20030413164143/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200303/msg00276.html

2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #15yrsago Sequoia Voting Systems threatens Felten’s Princeton security research team https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2008/03/17/interesting-email-sequoia/ #10yrsago Sheet music for the Mario “coin” sound https://web.archive.org/web/20091030172840/http://www.mariopiano.com/mario-sheet-music-coin-sound.html #10yrsago CPAC racism panel derailed by audience member who suggests slaves should have been grateful for food, shelter & clothing https://archive.thinkprogress.org/cpac-participant-defends-slavery-at-minority-outreach-panel-it-gave-food-and-shelter-to-blacks-1959db62fa/…