Aug 17, 2021

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This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.

#20yrsago Danny Goodman’s secret history of Hypercard https://web.archive.org/web/20010917050014/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/08/17/goodman.html

#15yrsago Federal court bans Bush’s warrantless spying on Americans https://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/17/domesticspying.lawsuit/index.html

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