This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014.

2 min readJun 30, 2024

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On July 14, I’m giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY. On July 20, I’m appearing at Chicago’s Exile in Bookville.

#20yrsgo Flickr adds Creative Commons licenses https://web.archive.org/web/20091226143532/http://blog.flickr.net/en/2004/06/29/creative-commons/

#20yrsago Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom wins Locus Award https://memex.craphound.com/2004/06/29/down-and-out-wins-locus-award/

#20yrsago Fast Company’s new linking policy still broken https://memex.craphound.com/2004/06/29/fast-companys-new-linking-policy-still-broken/

#20yrsago Bayesian spam rumination: when word-frequency-histograms attack! https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2004/06/29/victims-spam-filtering/

#15yrsago Pirate Bay to sell to private company, go legit (?) (!) https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/30/swedish-software-firm-acquires-the-pirate-bay-for-77-million/

#15yrsago Gold farming, real money trades banned in China https://web.archive.org/web/20090706063914/http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/ebusiness/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218101859

#15yrsago 13 year old kid reviews a 30 year old Sony Walkman https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8117619.stm

#15yrsago Little Brother wins the Campbell Award — see you in Lawrence, KS on July 11/12! https://web.archive.org/web/20090703190435/https://www.news.ku.edu/2009/june/29/sciencefiction.shtml

#10yrsago Internet’s Own Boy, free CC-licensed download on Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz

#10yrsago Black ASU prof beaten by campus cops without provocation, charged with assault https://newsone.com/3028140/ersula-ore-arizona-state-university/

#10yrsago Stupid Congress: 20 years of GOP war on congressional competence https://washingtonmonthly.com/2014/06/09/the-big-lobotomy/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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