This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Ted Chiang’s debut: Short-story collection of the decade if not the century https://memex.craphound.com/2002/06/24/short-story-collection-of-the-decade-if-not-the-century/

#20yrsago More Songs About Buildings and Food https://www.salon.com/2002/06/24/buildings_and_food/

#20yrsago VerisignOff: Let’s put Verisign to death https://web.archive.org/web/20020802142751/http://www.verisignoff.org/

#20yrsago Broadband *doesn’t* need content! https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2002/06/23/the-broadband-difference-how-online-behavior-changes-with-high-speed-internet-connections/

#20yrsago Warchalking Runes 1.0 https://web.archive.org/web/20020627102610/http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/

#15yrsago MySpace, Facebook mirror class divisions in US society http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

#10yrsago Q&A with a former member of the Westboro Baptist family https://web.archive.org/web/20120624210938/https://www.topiama.com/r/4/iaman-exmember-of-the-westboro-baptist-church

#10yrsago Jimmy Wales to UK Home Secretary: don’t render Richard O’Dwyer to the USA https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/24/richard-o-dwyer-my-petition