GREAT AND NOT-SO-GREAT MOMENTS IN INTERNET HISTORY: Thirty years ago today, the first rotisserie baseball league drafted.
On a less happy note, sixteen years ago yesterday commercial spam was born when Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel advertised their immigration law services on 6,000 Usenet discussion boards at the same time. It did not go over well.
I still have a "Green Card Lawyers" t-shirt commemorating the event. Joel Furr did a series of USENET meme t-shirts, for which he was very careful to charge exactly cost, because it was still unclear whether for-profit Internet ventures were legal.
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