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/