This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#15yrsago Meshing WiFi in a San Francisco housing project https://www.wired.com/2007/04/wifiproject-0403/

#10yrsago Bruce Sterling’s critique and love note to “the New Aesthetic” https://www.wired.com/2012/04/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic/

#10yrsago Episode 1 of Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day’s “Tabletop,” a net-show about tabletop gaming sessions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9QtdiRJYro

#10yrsago Voice of Yakko Warner performs “Yakko’s World” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo_8UmQzu14

#5yrsago Leaked Inspector General’s report reveals millions lost to incompetence and waste at the US Copyright Office https://www.techdirt.com/2017/04/03/newly-leaked-documents-expose-stunning-waste-incompetence-copyright-office/

#5yrsago Unesco warns the World Wide Web Consortium that DRM is incompatible with free expression https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/eme_letter_frank_la_rue.pdf

#5yrsago How Netflix is driving permanent, terrible, standards-defined insecurity for billions of browser users https://www.newscientist.com/article/2126513-debate-rages-over-controversial-copyright-standard-for-the-web/

#5yrsago Read: chapter two of WALKAWAY, in which buildings build themselves…