This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJun 6, 2023

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Tonight (June 6), I’m on a Rightscon panel about interoperability.

Tomorrow (June 7), I’m keynoting the Re:publica conference in Berlin.

Thursday (June 8) at 8PM, I’m at Otherland Books in Berlin with my novel Red Team Blues.

#20yrsago An idea for email clients https://memex.craphound.com/2003/06/06/an-idea-for-email-clients/

#15yrsago Patching ancient walls with legos https://www.designboom.com/art/jan-vormann-dispatchwork/

#15yrsago Security guard: no photography in Union Station; Congresswoman: Oh yes there is! https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2008/06/union-station-p.html

#10yrsago Scary Russian business-man insists he isn’t scary: “you are in no possible danger of being murdered if you come to Moscow!” https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/06/vrublevsky-arrested-for-witness-intimidation/

#10yrsago Doonesbury’s transvaginal ultrasound/Republican state house strips https://web.archive.org/web/20130606125228/https://imgur.com/aS3Tcm9

#10yrsago DHS on border laptop searches: we can’t tell you why this is legal, and we won’t limit searches to reasonable suspicion…

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