This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020

#20yrsago “State-of-the-industry” letter from the year 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20010822012929/https://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000064605aug09.story

#15yrsago RIAA to grieving family: We depose your children in 60 days https://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2006/08/riaa-wants-to-depose-dead-defendants.html

#10yrsago Doctor tried to “cure” homosexuality by tasping gay man while he had sex with female sex worker https://web.archive.org/web/20111004080028/http://blog.ketyov.com/2011/08/self-stimulating-brain-for-heterosexual.html

#10yrsago My panel with Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and Al Gore at Mexico City’s Campus Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXPZnpsN4-s

#10yrsago 1968: when Britain’s Daily Mirror tried to overthrow Parliament https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/07/every_day_is_like_sunday.html

#10yrsago Stasi spywear: the inept art of commie disguise https://web.archive.org/web/20110802105131/http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,777716,00.html

#5yrsago How removing headphone jacks opens the door to DRM (and how to close the door) https://www.fastcompany.com/3062741/the-iphones-disappearing-headphone-jack-reason-for-concern