This day in history

2005, 2020.

#20yrsago How the Interstates got their numbers https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/Interstate.cfm

#20yrsago Classic Atari D&D game is now a Quake 3 level https://web.archive.org/web/20040412195156/http://www.ataritimes.com/features/q3_adventure.html

#20yrsago Shirky: Pro metadata will lose to folksonomy https://corante.com/many/folksonomies-controlled-vocabularies/

#20yrsago Microsoft anti-spyware violates spyware EULAs https://web.archive.org/web/20050111021046/http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2005/01/07.html#a200

#5yrsago After more than a decade, Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg’s YA classics The PLAIN Janes are back! https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/07/after-more-than-a-decade-cecil-castellucci-and-jim-ruggs-ya-classics-the-plain-janes-are-back/

#5yrsago 1975 Disneyland Haunted Mansion Standard Operating Procedures manual https://archive.org/details/hauntedmansionmanual

#5yrsago Despite 50 state AGs’ antitrust investigations, Google stocks hit an all time high https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/06/google-and-facebook-hit-all-time-highs-despite-antitrust-probes.html

#5yrsago AI, machine learning, and other frothy tech subjects remained overhyped in 2019 https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2020-january-01/

#5yrsago The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/810158671170772992

#5yrsago Explaining the con that is private equity https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/6/21024740/private-equity-taylor-swift-toys-r-us-elizabeth-warren