This day in history

2007, 2012.

#15yrsago Karl Schroeder’s Ventus now a free CC download https://web.archive.org/web/20070920221817/http://www.kschroeder.com/Ventus/

#15yrsago Mozilla creating a foundation to improve email https://web.archive.org/web/20070918203547/http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/09/mozillas_new_focus_on_thunderb.html

#15yrsago Head of US copyright says “DMCA does what it is supposed to do” https://memex.craphound.com/2007/09/17/head-of-us-copyright-says-dmca-does-what-it-is-supposed-to-do/

#15yrsago NYTimes kills its paywall: “Google visitors make more dough than subscribers” https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html

#10yrsago Scroogled: CC-licensed story about the day Google turned evil https://web.archive.org/web/20070920193501/http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/09/google_fiction_evil_dangerous_surveillance_control_1.php

#10yrsago Terrorists suck at terrorism https://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/absisfin.pdf

#10yrsago District Attorneys rent out their letterhead to debt collectors, split the shakedown loot https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/business/in-prosecutors-debt-collectors-find-a-partner.html