This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMar 14, 2023

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#20yrsago Will ultrawideband (finally) kill Bluetooth? https://web.archive.org/web/20030501052638/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200303/msg00179.html

#20yrsago Natalie Merchant abandons the recording industry https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/13/arts/natalie-merchant-no-strings-attached.html

#15yrsago RIAA’s unethical investigations to be dragged into the open in court case https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/03/andersen-attorney-on-riaa-suit-they-cant-run-now/

#10yrsago Transcripts of bullying voicemails left by porno copyright troll to ex-caretaker and alleged identity theft victim https://www.techdirt.com/2013/03/14/transcripts-john-steeles-phone-calls-to-alan-cooper/

#10yrsago Review of Nineteen Eighty-Four from 1949 https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/03/fitzgerald-woolf-and-j-g-ballard-five-classic-book-reviews-ns-archive

#10yrsago Texas cop repeatedly tazes the Statue of Liberty https://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/03/tasing-liberty.html

#5yrsago Scenes from today’s national gun control student walkout https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/us/school-walkout.html

#5yrsago Stephen Hawking’s final words to the internet: robots aren’t the…

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