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2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJan 4, 2022

#20yrsago Congress misses the Office of Technology Assessment https://web.archive.org/web/20020107044303/https://thehill.com/010202/experts.shtm

#20yrsago Fuji perfects 3GB floppy https://web.archive.org/web/20020106183710/https://www.theinquirer.net/04010212.htm

#15yrsago Voting-machine certifier is de-certified https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/washington/04voting.html

#15yrsago Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor https://memex.craphound.com/2007/01/04/off-the-books-the-underground-economy-of-the-urban-poor/

#15yrsago Muslim Congressman to be sworn in on Jefferson’s Quran https://web.archive.org/web/20070107185846/http://www.forbes.com/business/commerce/feeds/ap/2007/01/03/ap3296910.html

#15yrsago Bruce Sterling’s state-of-the-world Web-conference https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/289/Bruce-Sterling-State-of-the-Worl-page01.html

#10yrsago Bush-era whistleblower faced even more intense harassment under Obama https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/obamas-war-on-whistleblowers.html

#10yrsago Canadian Parliament: a notorious pirate marketplace…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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