This day in history

2001, 2011, 2016, 2020

#20yrsago Excellent history of weblogs http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

#20yrsago Having “sex” in your surname gets you into trouble with profanity filters http://bissex.net/paul/profanity.gif

#10yrsago Scalzi’s Fuzzy Nation: a masterful, likable reboot of one of the great sf classics https://memex.craphound.com/2011/05/16/scalzis-fuzzy-nation-a-masterful-likable-reboot-of-one-of-the-great-sf-classics/

#10yrsago Piracy sends “Go the Fuck to Sleep” to #1 on Amazon https://www.baycitizen.org/go-the-f-to-sleep-the-case-of-the-viral-pdf/

#5yrsago Lumberjanes: ground-breaking, wonderful, hilarious comic about adventurous girls https://memex.craphound.com/2016/05/16/lumberjanes-ground-breaking-wonderful-hilarious-comic-about-adventurous-girls/

#5yrsago The Intercept begins publishing Snowden docs https://theintercept.com/snowden-sidtoday/

#1yrago Google faces antitrust blitz https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/16/labor-investors/#big-goog

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank…