This Day in History

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020

#20yrsago Scott McCloud on Napster, “piracy” and micropayments https://web.archive.org/web/20010708054658/http://www.thecomicreader.com/html/icst/icst-6/icst-6.html

#15yrsago Flickr: we’ll give full access to competitors — if they reciprocate https://www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/72157594165399644/#comment72157594167782546

#10yrsago ICANN votes to roll out 400–800 new generic top-level domains https://www.flickr.com/photos/wseltzer/5852419280/

#10yrsago KFC: support diabetes research by buying an 800 calorie, 56 spoonful of sugar “Mega Jug” https://theweek.com/articles/483837/irony-alert-buy-kfcs-800calorie-soda-support-diabetes-research

#5yrsago Homeless in Seattle: five essays https://www.theawl.com/2016/06/youd-have-to-be-crazy/#.k6um2lfs9

#5yrsago W3C DRM working group chairman vetoes work on protecting security researchers and competition https://lwn.net/Articles/691108/

#1yrago Microsoft criticizes Apple’s monopolism https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/19/art-of-the-deal/#honi-soit-qui-mal-y-pense

#1yrago Trump wants to dismantle the OTF https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/19/art-of-the-deal/#save-otf