This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.

#20yrsago Recording industry needs collaborative filtering https://web.archive.org/web/20030410212626/http://www.shirky.com/writings/music_flip.html

#20yrsago Origin of spam https://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html

#15yrsago Joel Johnson puts AT&T on the spot over copyright spying plan https://web.archive.org/web/20080122084628/http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/01/21/talking-about-atts-i.html

#10yrsago Podcast of my memorial for AaronSw, and the afterword he wrote for Homeland https://craphound.com/news/2013/01/21/rip-aaron-swartz/

#10yrago Edward Tufte on Aaron Swartz and his own hacking career https://danwin.com/2013/01/edward-tufte-aaron-swartz-marvelously-different/

#10yrsago Pennsylvania kindergartener uses Hello Kitty bubble-gun at school, suspended for “terrorist threat” https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/kindergartner-suspended-over-bubble-gun-threat/

#10yrsago More plagiarism from Glee https://twitter.com/djearworm/status/172367818942185473

#10yrsago Montreal comp sci student reports massive bug, is expelled and threatened with arrest for checking to see if it had been fixed https://www.theregister.com/2013/01/21/dawson_student_expelled_code_flaw/

#10yrsago Guy re-creates a VIA Rail car, in his basement, down to the most minute detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjMnWdIWjWs

#5yrsago Apple, Google add 45 minutes to commuter-bus run to avoid 280 highway, where the buses’ windows keep getting smashed https://fortune.com/2018/01/18/apple-google-bus-attacks/

#5yrsago Racist authoritarians insisted that ending stop-and-frisk would increase violent crime, but the opposite just happened https://www.propublica.org/article/in-new-york-crime-falls-along-with-police-stops

#5yrsago Comic-strip contracts, so no one argues they’re too confusing to be enforceable https://theconversation.com/comic-contracts-and-other-ways-to-make-the-law-understandable-90313

#5yrsago City of Sarajevo bans unsanctioned utterances of its name, threatens Facebook groups…