This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.

#20yrsago Bloxsom, a lightweight blogging tool in 20 lines of perl https://web.archive.org/web/20020306024521/http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/perl/blosxom/

#20yrsago Slashdot offers paid subscriptions

#20yrsago Bruce Sterling explains why SXSW is still relevant https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2002-03-01/84834/

#15yrsago Sony to Kotaku: You’re blackballed! https://web.archive.org/web/20070303064324/http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/sony-blackballs-kotaku-240860.php

#10yrsago Ken MacLeod’s Intrusion: a surveillance and bioscience dystopia with the best of intentions https://memex.craphound.com/2012/03/01/ken-macleods-intrusion-a-surveillance-and-bioscience-dystopia-with-the-best-of-intentions/

#10yrsago In Minecraft, a fountain of cats at the top of the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNw2YcAK9Wc

#5yrsago US border guards can’t believe Nigerian man is a software engineer, google “questions to ask a software engineer” and give him a pop quiz https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/border-agents-detain-programmer-give-him-quiz-to-prove-hes-a-software-engineer/

#5yrsago Trump tells America’s attorneys general that Jews might be desecrating their own cemeteries to make him…