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This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readOct 18, 2021

#20yrsago Linux on a Big Mouth Billy Bass fish https://web.archive.org/web/20010902230849/http://bigmouth.here-n-there.com/

#15yrsago How pickpockets work https://web.archive.org/web/20070110023812/http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2006/11/mystory.html

#10yrsago Advice to the 1% from Lemony Snicket http://occupywriters.com/works/by-lemony-snicket/

#10yrsago Proposed Australian law makes it an offense to insult Gaming Minister Michael O’Brien https://web.archive.org/web/20120507161803/https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/surely-this-is-a-joke/story-fn7x8me2-1226167552466

#10yrsago EU vs Facebook: Facebook’s dossiers on Europeans breach EU privacy laws https://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201

#10yrsago Aloha From Hell: Sandman Slim goes back to Hell and kicks more ass https://memex.craphound.com/2011/10/18/aloha-from-hell-sandman-slim-goes-back-to-hell-and-kicks-more-ass/

#10yrsago Why are more people opting for legal name-changes than ever before? https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15333140

#5yrsago Everything Belongs to the Future: a tale of pharmadystopian, immortal gerontocrats…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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