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Perhaps more of interest to those who lived through it than those who arrived on the tail end, this is a fascinating and sometimes frustrating look back on infamous moments in AOL history.

The one thing not mentioned in the article is AOL’s link to the ironically self-titled Open Directory Project aka DMOZ, an once noble if hopelessly overoptimistic project whose recent history is as infamous as that of its owners.

20 Years of AOL Annoyances and Foul-Ups
by Harry McCracken, Technologizer, PCWorld
Apr 28, 2009

AOL floppies and CDs. Sharon Stone’s fling with the Running Man icon. The death of Netscape. It’s all part of AOL history we’d like to forget.

Read the PCWorld article here.

Discussion continues here.

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Misguided Protectors of Freedom of Speech: The next chapter

by djbaxter December 30, 2008

Uproar in Australia Over Plan to Block Web Sites
December 26, 2008
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — A proposed Internet filter dubbed the ”Great Aussie Firewall” is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries.
Consumers, civil-rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties are among the critics of a mandatory Internet [...]

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phpLynx: Directory Script with Superb Support

by djbaxter January 28, 2008

I wrote previously about the eSyndicat directory software and what at the time was great technical support. While I still feel that eSyndicat is a good script when it’s installed and running smoothly, the process of upgrading the scripts is a veritable nightmare. I’ve suffered through about three of them and required the intervention of [...]

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DMOZ reaches a new low

by djbaxter June 8, 2007

Compostannie, one of the most hard-working, most honest, and most principled of the mixed bag of DMOZ editors and arguably one of the best ambassadors DMOZ ever had, has been removed by the scurrilous crew that makes up the DMOZ inner sanctum.
Debates over the cowardly and shameful way this was done are currently raging [...]

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Tagged

by djbaxter April 3, 2007

I’m a little late finding this but…
I was tagged by Jeremy Mayes (aka GuyFromChicago) back in December 2006:
After you’ve been tagged you’re supposed to spill the beans on 5 things people don’t know about you then tag a few other people.
Here’s mine:

I was the second oldest (oldest son) of twelve children and had five sisters before [...]

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Products with support: A Small Orange Hosting

by djbaxter December 27, 2006

Most of us have become so accustomed to poor product quality and poor product support that even the mediocre impresses us – that’s part of the reason we all so readily purchase “extended warranties” for all manner of products these days.
But today, as the year draws to a close, I want to tell you about two organizations I discovered [...]

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A law you can’t enforce is just political hot air

by djbaxter December 10, 2006

Another news item from the “Ideas that sounded good to someone who didn’t think it all the way through” file:
Senators propose to track sex offenders online
Thu Dec 7, 3:11 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two U.S. senators said on Thursday they would introduce legislation that would potentially protect users of popular social networking sites like [...]

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