This day in history

#20yrsago Consensus at Lawyerpoint https://web.archive.org/web/20020414045537/https://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/

#15yrsago Orwell’s London neighborhood covered in spy-cameras https://web.archive.org/web/20070405190656/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23391081-details/George+Orwell%2C+Big+Brother+is+watching+your+house/article.do

#15yrsago DVD jukeboxes are legal https://web.archive.org/web/20070611111113/http://www.twice.com/article/CA6429538.html

#10yrsago Cliff theory of mobile business: why mobile phone companies go from top to bottom overnight https://memex.craphound.com/2012/04/01/cliff-theory-of-mobile-business-why-mobile-phone-companies-go-from-top-to-bottom-overnight/ https://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/03/the-cliff-theory-of-handset-collapse-why-in-mobile-phones-do-companies-die-so-fast-siemens-motorola-.html

#1yrago Ontario’s drug-dealer premier is shockingly bad at distributing vaccines https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/01/incompetent-drug-dealer/#what-a-dope

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