This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2020.

#20yrsago Napster is dead, long live Napster https://www.wired.com/2002/05/last-rites-for-napster/

#20yrsago Roll your own tampons http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/2002_05.html#000225

#20yrsago Distributed power-strip distribution at the O’Reilly Emerging Tech conference https://memex.craphound.com/2002/05/14/distributed-power-strip-distribution/

#15yrsago Crybaby Scientologists call reporter a “terrorist” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6650545.stm

#15yrsago HOWTO convert a Model T into a tractor https://web.archive.org/web/20070519012643/http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/14/a-new-tractor-from-your-old-car/

#15yrsago UK tax experts warn of virtual world money laundering https://web.archive.org/web/20070517032909/http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/05/14/uk-panel-urges-real-life-treatment-for-virtual-cash/

#10yrsago Advance praise for Pirate Cinema https://memex.craphound.com/2012/05/14/advance-praise-for-pirate-cinema/

#10yrsago Anodyne Anonymity https://memex.craphound.com/2012/05/14/anodyne-anonymity/

#10yrsago Nerd fatalism, nerd determinism: the problem with nerd politics https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/may/14/problem-nerd-politics

#10yrsago Forming: dirty Gnostic creation-myth comic of high and lavish weirdness https://memex.craphound.com/2012/05/14/forming-dirty-gnostic-creation-myth-comic-of-high-and-lavish-weirdness/

#10yrsago RIP, Donald “Duck” Dunn https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-18049583

#10yrsago Yes Men punk TPP and US Trade Ambassador with fake “Corporate Power Tool Award” https://theyesmen.org/project/tpp/reveal

#10yrsago Pirates win more seats in German state elections https://falkvinge.net/2012/05/13/german-pirate-party-scores-fourth-consecutive-election-win/

#10yrsago How Harvard Book Store combines the best of digital bookselling with the best of physical bookselling https://www.forbes.com/sites/philjohnson/2012/05/10/the-man-who-took-on-amazon-and-saved-a-bookstore/