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2002, 0007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJan 9, 2022

#20yrsago The Web Runs on Love, Not Greed https://web.archive.org/web/20020204123233/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200201/msg00089.html

#20yrsago 23 Myths About the Internet https://web.archive.org/web/20020113023059/www.postget.com/get/article.php?newsid=80499

#15yrsago Gerlado Rivera threatens to beat up Keith Olbermann https://web.archive.org/web/20070118214100/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_local_namesblog/2007/01/geraldo_wants_t.html

#15yrsago “After the Siege” — my novella about the Siege of Leningrad http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/after-the-siege.html

#10yrsago GameStop competitor: we’re not as bad as GameStop, but neither is getting kicked in the testicles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MPjJLJRYv8

#10yrsago Paul Ryan drops support for SOPA https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/o9gq7/reddit_successfully_pressures_rep_paul_ryan_rwi/

#5yrsago My first Enigma machine: Mattel once sold a Barbie typewriter with built-in crypto capabilities https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie/

#5yrsago FBI arrest the VW executive who stonewalled on the first Dieselgate reports for defrauding the US Government…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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