This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Hyperlinks were really invented in 1960 https://web.archive.org/web/20020408150832/https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50398,00.html

#15yrsago Blu-Ray AND HD-DVD broken — processing keys extracted https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121866&page=6

#15yrsago RIAA to ISPs: send our blackmail notices to your customers https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/02/8832/

#10yrsago Canada’s sweeping new, evidence-free electronic spying bill https://web.archive.org/web/20120213213820/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6316/125/

#10yrsago Cat Valente on writers and haters http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/02/between-the-perfect-and-the-re.html

#10yrsago The Incal: classic, weird-ass French space-opera comic drawn by Moebius, reprinted in English https://memex.craphound.com/2012/02/13/the-incal-classic-weird-ass-french-space-opera-comic-drawn-by-moebius-reprinted-in-english/

#5yrsago The W3C, DRM, and future of the open web https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/future-of-the-www-timbl-drm/

#1yrago $50T moved from America’s 90% to the 1% https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/13/data-protection-without-monopoly/#inequality