This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

#20yrsago Aaron Swartz warns that Danger is repeating the Newton’s restrictive SDK licensing mistakes https://memex.craphound.com/2003/03/18/danger-repeating-apples-newton-mistakes-with-restrictive-sdk/

#20yrsago HK researchers identify mysterious, deadly respiratory disease https://web.archive.org/web/20030413164143/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200303/msg00276.html

#15yrsago Sequoia Voting Systems scares NJ county off of auditing its machines https://www.nj.com/news/2008/03/voting_machine_maker_threatens.html

#15yrsago Wikihistory: sf story about the revert-wars among time-travellers — “everybody kills Hitler on their first trip” https://web.archive.org/web/20080302114051/http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html

#15yrsago CBC to release TV broadcast as high-quality, no-DRM BitTorrent download https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2008/03/cbc-bittorrent-release/

#10yrsago Copyright shouldn’t take away real property rights https://www.wired.com/2013/03/you-dont-own-your-cellphones-or-your-cars/

#10yrsago Literature’s business model explained, with special reference to the age of the Internet https://www.vqronline.org/articles/what-business-literature