This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.

#20yrsago The music industry owes you $20 — and you can collect https://web.archive.org/web/20021206084816/http://musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm

#20yrsago DARPA’s magic PDA https://web.archive.org/web/20021202000124/https://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa02-21mod3.htm

#20yrsago RIAA cooked the books to invent “piracy problem” https://web.archive.org/web/20030113094231/http://www.azoz.com/music/features/0008.html

#15yrsago How Sony BMG lost its mind and rootkitted its CDs https://web.archive.org/web/20081123052059/http://substantialsimilarity.org/wp-content/uploads/subsim/2007/12/disaster-final.pdf

#15yrsago Blender-shaped baby-bath https://flickr.com/photos/doctorow/1791683036/

#15yrsago Adults warn kids off social network sites, use them themselves — Pew Internet report on search and identity https://web.archive.org/web/20071218062126/http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/229/source/rss/report_display.asp

#15yrsago Tin pregnancies of 18th cen. London https://web.archive.org/web/20071219025116/http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2007_12_01_archive.asp

#15yrsago Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported — over a ten-year-old visa mistake…