This day in history

2002, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Email that won’t travel more than 500 miles https://www.copytechnet.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-34269.html

#20yrsago Tied to a tree for failing to pay utility bills in Azerbaijan https://www.rferl.org/a/1079243.html

#10yrsago Pret fires longstanding employee who attempted to unionise, asked for the London Living Wage for all employees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR7vRzPq3aU

#10yrsago Sony ceases production on cassette player/recorders https://web.archive.org/web/20121209030400/http://en.akihabaranews.com/121398/dap-pmp/sony-to-discontinue-the-production-early-2013-of-cassette-player-recorder

#5yrsago Square dancing was a racist hoax funded by Henry Ford to get white people to stop dancing to black music https://twitter.com/RobynElyse/status/938916412248199168

#5yrsago Ajit Pai says an informed public (not Net Neutrality) will discipline ISPs (BTW, he’s also killing the rules forcing ISPs to inform the public) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/how-the-net-neutrality-repeal-helps-isps-keep-their-hidden-fees-hidden/

#5yrsago Here are some of the lavish, lobbyist-funded parties that Congress and the Trump administration will attend this month…