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This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMay 8, 2022

#20yrsago Virus infects worm https://web.archive.org/web/20020803205728/http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992252

#20yrsago Why Freenet? Why now? https://web.archive.org/web/20020804165151/http://news.com.com/2008-1082-899662.html

#15yrsago India trying to save the world from yoga patentshttps://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/opinion/07mehta.html

#15yrago BBC recruits Microsoft DRM exec https://web.archive.org/web/20070523094138/https://informitv.com/articles/2007/05/03/bbcappointsmicrosoft/

#10yrsago RIP, Maurice Sendak https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/08/maurice-sendak-wild-things-dies-83

#10yrsago Welcome to your 2012 election season, let the suppression of political debate begin. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/good-citizenship-online-service-providers-lets-not-let-dailykos-takedown-be

#10yrsago German Pirate Party wins seats in a third regional election https://www.techdirt.com/2012/05/07/pirate-party-wins-again-germany/

#10yrsago Why Tech Review is ditching its iPad edition https://web.archive.org/web/20120510030359/https://www.technologyreview.com/business/40319/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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