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#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 http://ntk.net/2001/05/25/?arc

1995-1997's top 8 scifi haikus - not as good as the Quake or movie review ones?
https://web.archive.org/web/20210213221634/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~danhorn/scifaikureview.html

unlabelled EastEnders 90210 April Fool?
https://web.archive.org/web/20010410195407/http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/eastenders/features/exclusive.shtml

& what if the EU had enforced this rather than cookie popups?

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 http://ntk.net/2001/05/11/?arc

sad deaths of the Times "Inter//Face" section, Douglas Adams

cryptic debut mention of UK Independence Party

& in modern parlance: Mike & The Mechanics' The Living Years, but it's The Shangri-Las' Leader Of The Pack
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gOFcMedjNQk

Need To Know 2001-05-11

libel sell-by, interface bye-bye, mah-lah borg-ay

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 http://ntk.net/2001/04/27/?arc

@edfelten et al defeat audio watermarks, silenced by RIAA

Lucozade renamed Lara(Croft)-zade

"Large Global Anti-Capitalism Protests Put Smaller, Local Protests Out Of Business"
https://web.archive.org/web/20010603152849/http://www.urbanreflex.com/monopoly.html

& "..one Cheggers made earlier"

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 http://ntk.net/2001/04/20/?arc

netimperative.com & Attachments' in-show site
https://web.archive.org/web/20110725214628/http://www.seethru.co.uk/
battle on longer than expected

+ following
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Show_(British_TV_series)
comic Bob Mills gets 2nd series of similarly Larry Sanders-y BOB MARTIN:
https://youtu.be/lR5ZWi0F4Jw

Need To Know 2001-04-20

Tank Police, Tanked TV

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 http://ntk.net/2001/04/06/?arc

RMS' odd behaviour fairly well-known 27 years ago
https://zork.net/pipermail/crackmonkey/1998-December/001777.html

gamers conned by bargain deals - on PlayStation 2

Harlan Ellison's anti-piracy campaign - "I Have No Caps Lock Key, And I Must Scream"
https://web.archive.org/web/20010418210721/http://harlanellison.com/kick/kick_rls.htm

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 http://ntk.net/2001/03/16/?arc

Cheltenham cancelled, election postponed & 6m culled by viral outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease - was Pope to blame?
https://web.archive.org/web/20010406122916/http://thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=53657

& who said it - Eric S Raymond's dating tips, or The Eagle's "Doomlord"?
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/sextips/sexy.html

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 http://ntk.net/2001/03/09/?arc

BBC on trail of a "web bug"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1493152.stm

that's following a "cyberwoozle"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1210087.stm

that's chasing (the same?) web bug
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/842624.stm

& Craig Charles/ Jeremy Clarkson sadly not available to host Spaced's "Robot Club"
https://youtu.be/VjxtXau0924

Need To Know 2001-03-09

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