This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020

#20yrsago Public wifi is doomed because no one owns it https://web.archive.org/web/20060313190414/http://www.redherring.com/

#15yrsago How to run a successful sf convention room party http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007898.html

#15yrsago Google: We are not a verb. Yahoo: Go ahead and remix our brand https://web.archive.org/web/20061111175912/http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000348.html

#10yrsago How paid FBI anti-terror informants lead “terrorist attacks” that the FBI foils https://web.archive.org/web/20110915101618/https://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants

#10yrsago William Gibson on cities and the future https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gibson-interview-cities-in-fact-and-fiction/

#10yrsago RIP, Jack Layton https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-14618943

#5yrsago The Equation Group’s sourcecode is totally fugly https://web.archive.org/web/20160818012451/https://www.cs.uic.edu/~s/musings/equation-group/

#5yrsago Robert Moses wove enduring racism into New York’s urban fabric https://web.archive.org/web/20151204011506/http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/politics/216905-the-lingering-effects-of-nyc-racist-city-planning