This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.

#20yrsago Scientology silences critics at Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20121108101856/http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/c2a9c4952ae57848

#20yrsago New bill will make analog VCRs and TVs illegal in 2006 https://digitalconsumer.org/press-release-2002-09-19.html

#20yrsago Groucho to Warner Bros: Get Bent https://web.archive.org/web/20020604031835/http://www.princeton.edu/~flannery/quotations/casablanca.html

#15yrsago My Guardian column on “the information economy” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/sep/18/informationeconomy

#15yrsago DRM violates Canadian privacy law https://cippic.ca/sites/default/files/CIPPIC_Report_DRM_and_Privacy.pdf

#15yrsago Private doc does “e-visits” by email or webcam https://web.archive.org/web/20070925030643/http://www.jayparkinsonmd.com/

#15yrsago Soviet top-level domain refuses to die https://web.archive.org/web/20070101000000*/http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/09/does-top-level-domain-make-nation.html

#15yrsago London’s panopticon of CCTVs aren’t solving crimes https://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=9728

#10yrsago Fresco “restorer” wants a royalty from the church https://www.techdirt.com/2012/09/19/old-lady-ruins-fresco-claims-copyright-demands-money/

#5yrsago America’s execs increasingly believe health insurance industry is worse than useless https://truthout.org/articles/even-business-leaders-are-realizing-health-insurance-companies-serve-no-purpose/

#5yrsago Trump’s cutback-crazed health secretary loves billing private jets to the US taxpayer https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/19/tom-price-chartered-planes-flights-242908

#5yrsago Quiz: Breitbart headline, or KKK newspaper headline from the 1920s? https://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2017/09/14/quiz_tests_whether_headlines_came_from_breitbart_or_1920s_kkk_newspapers.html

#5yrsago 20% of Manchester police systems run Windows XP https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41306321