This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.

THIS IS THE LAST DAY for the Kickstarter campaign for the audiobook of my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible.

#20yrsago Why WiFi is crucial to the First Amendment https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/20030417_eff_fcc_spectrum_letter.pdf

#15yrsago Secret history of Infocom’s abortive sequel to The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy text adventure, Milliways https://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/

#15yrsago Bell Canada: We have to screw up other ISPs’ connections or our retail customers will suffer by comparison https://web.archive.org/web/20080420010807/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=3b50140e-610c-4245-a234-1ae04193a5f2&k=66930

#10yrsago Wired Magazine’s 1992 media kit https://brianstorms.com/2013/04/revisiting-the-original-1992-wired-media-kit.html

#10yrsago Med Express uses broken Ohio law to silence critics who say true things https://www.popehat.com/2013/04/15/the-popehat-signal-stand-against-rank-thuggery-in-ohio/