This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJun 23, 2021

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#20yrsago AI has arrived! https://web.archive.org/web/20010625114014/https://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/lat_cyc010621.htm

#15yrsago Disney: We [will|won’t] sue if you put Pooh on a baby’s headstone https://web.archive.org/web/20060711194928/http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060623-093710-8391r

#10yrsago Mexican Congress votes to reject ACTA https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110622/16200014814/mexican-congress-says-no-to-acta.shtml

#5yrsago The morning after the Brexit vote, Nigel Farage admits money for the NHS was a lie https://twitter.com/GMB/status/746218028195426305

#5yrsago How to protect the future web from its founders’ own frailty https://memex.craphound.com/2016/06/24/how-to-protect-the-future-web-from-its-founders-own-frailty/

#5yrsago More than 30 people burned during Tony Robbins “motivational” firewalk https://web.archive.org/web/20160627054938/http://bigstory.ap.org/c7872f6db09e4656a612ee13aab74d50

#1yrago AOC wins https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/24/russian-roulette/#aoc-aoc-aoc

#1yrago EU v FB (vg!) https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/24/russian-roulette/#do-not-consent

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