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This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMay 1, 2022

#15yrsago XKCD’s map of online communities in the style of a D&D map https://xkcd.com/256/

#15yrsago Digg users revolt over AACS key https://web.archive.org/web/20070504054516/http://blog.digg.com/?p=74

#10yrsago US copyright enemies list is worst ever, including countries whose crime is poverty https://web.archive.org/web/20120503124824/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6456/125/

#10yrsago Notes from a scratchbuilt 8-bit computer https://web.archive.org/web/20120423014125/http://8bitspaghetti.com/

#10yrsago UK MPs: Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run an international corporation https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/may/01/rupert-murdoch-not-fit-select-committee

#10yrsago Stephen King calls on politicians to tax him and other rich people https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-king-tax-me-for-fands-sake

#5yrsago Google order its secretive “raters’” hours cut, so now they’re going public https://arstechnica.com/features/2017/04/the-secret-lives-of-google-raters/

#5yrsago Leaked confidential memo reveals Facebook program to identify and target “insecure” kids…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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