This day in history

2001, 2011, 2016.

#20yrsago Al Gore actually won the election https://web.archive.org/web/20011112155418/https://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2001/11/12/recount/index.html

#10yrsago Minimum wage hike coming to Guangdong, the world’s factory https://theworld.org/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/111109/china-economy-manufacturing-guangdong

#5yrsago The internet’s core infrastructure is dangerously unsupported and could crumble (but we can save it!) https://fordfoundcontent.blob.core.windows.net/media/2976/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf

#5yrsago America’s actually had worse presidential races than this one https://loweringthebar.net/2016/11/worst-presidential-race.html

#5yrsago A Spotify bug thrashed subscribers’ drives for the past five months https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/for-five-months-spotify-has-badly-abused-users-storage-drives/

#5yrsago Dennis the Dentist: on the unkillable wrongness of nominative determinism https://timharford.com/2016/11/rich-the-banker-whats-not-in-a-name/

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