This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readDec 9, 2022

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#20yrsago MPAA FCC comments: too many howlers and fibs to count https://web.archive.org/web/20031203201922/http://www.mpaa.org/Press/MPAA_Comments_02-230.pdf

#20yrsago Sterling’s decade-ahead-of-its-time librarian talk https://bactra.org/Sterling/Free_as_the_Air_Free_as_Water_Free_as_Knowledge.html

#15yrsago Robot animation illustrates the rise, fall and cause of the free and open web https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkGmNJWbQaU

#15yrsago Happy 90th, Arthur C Clarke! https://sirarthurcclarke90.blogspot.com

#15yrsago Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web https://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/positions/Nokia.pdf

#10yrsago Schooling a reader who doesn’t like female, middle-aged, black pirate captains https://vera-invenire.tumblr.com/post/175018731604/author-scott-lynch-responds-to-a-critic-of-the/

#10yrsago Hour-by-hour look at hyper-disciplinarian charter school where kids maintain near-total silence for seven years https://web.archive.org/web/20121212053851/http://edushyster.com/?p=1425

#5yrsago Four things to know about the Republican plan to give trillions of dollars to the richest Americans…

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