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This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
3 min readSep 26, 2022

#20yrsago Haunted Mansion movie inches forward https://web.archive.org/web/20021201081611/http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/hauntedmansion/index.html

#15yrsago Chinese MMO bans in-game gender-bending https://web.archive.org/web/20071012015208/http://www.pacificepoch.com/newsstories/106627_0_5_0_M/

#15yrsago Harvard lawyers shred Harvard Coop’s claim that book prices are “property” https://web.archive.org/web/20071104003854/https://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=519661

#15yrsago Donald Duck foiled a patent application https://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/donaldduck/?ph

#10yrsago Laptop rental companies reach cash-free, pointless settlement with toothless FTC for taking secret naked pictures of customers having sex, harvesting medical records and banking passwords and more https://www.wired.com/2012/09/laptop-rental-spyware-scandal/

#10yrsago EU working group produces the stupidest set of proposed Internet rules in the entire history of the human race https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/proposed-eu-plan-to-stop-terrorist-sites-even-more-ridiculous-than-thought/

#10yrsago Debunking the NYT feature on the wastefulness of data-centers…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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