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#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/11/03/?...
widely-sued Napster forms "strategic alliance" for BMG to (unsuccessfully) try and buy it in 2002

& "if this wasn't on UKNM, you'd assume it was a troll" - Godado was a UK search engine where users "paid for higher rankings"
chinwag.com/uk-netmarket...
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/10/20/?...

@kithonline.bsky.social's Scott Thompson spoofs Eminem
youtube.com/watch?v=Hick...

Nanoloop 1.0 chiptune synth reviewed for GameBoy

...city of Leeds unimpressed
web.archive.org/web/20001217...

& BT - rhetorical as ever:
October 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/10/13/?...
O'Reilly author eschews popular SQL trope "Humans as numbered entities"
web.archive.org/web/20001030...

still online: S-Club 7-Headed BEAST OF REVELATION
darryn-reeds.tripod.com/S-Club-7-sec...

& @tomstandage.bsky.social introduces us to "temp tracks"
October 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/10/06/?...
Industry Standard mag optimistically launches European edition, goes bust within a year

almost-the-last mentions of
x.com/JulieMarieMe...
Anthea Turner's Flake wedding
Microsoft Netmeeting

& retro fun for BBC FutureWorld
web.archive.org/web/20000929...
October 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/09/29/?...
Bruce Schneier proposes "Street Performer Protocol", early predecessor of 2008's crowdfunding musings kk.org/thetechnium/...

Everyone hates BBC2 Attachments
youtube.com/watch?v=l2rE...

& oddly, King did swear vengeance - against the van
October 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
#OnThisDayInNTK: 2000 ntk.net/2000/09/22/?...
@futureplc.bsky.social reveal their hotly-awaited "Internet Awards", including:

Best WAP-enabled Site
Best Implementation of an Extranet
&... E-Company of the Year
web.archive.org/web/20001018...

& NASA find "organic material" - right here on Earth!
September 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 www.ntk.net/2000/09/15/?...
brief Tory "Dump The Pumps" fuel protest spreads to other popular hydrocarbons
web.archive.org/web/20010302...

hackers "award" Mercury Prize to Badly Drawn Boy's Hat
ntk.net/2000/09/15/d...

& win the "first product to respect music copyright"
September 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/09/08/?...

Backspace's post-Clink St dek.spc.org/julian/consume/ community wifi

"at times [now-deceased Blondie drummer Clem Burke] was playing close to his cardio-vascular capacity"
web.archive.org/web/20010430...

& the oddly whiplash-disclaimer-free BOXERJOCKS:
September 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
#OnThisDayInNTK:2005 ntk.net/2005/09/02/?...
1st/last mention of UK demo party Sundown - ran till ~2016, evolved into still-going novaparty.org

@okfn.bsky.social presents World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures
web.archive.org/web/20051025...

(& slightly less male-sounding lineup than...)
September 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/08/25/?...
The Times previews "debugged" PS2 with baffling (/Japanese) convention of using O = Yes button

Guardian reveals how it bluffs its way "through any new-media conversation"
theguardian.com/media/2000/s...

@charliebrooker.bsky.social launches Unnovations
August 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
August 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
solid effort - there is a "L'Agence tous risques"-style Japanese theme song
catacombs.space1999.net/main/pguide/...
but these currently-circulating
"Space: 1999 Japanese Titles from the rare Igyan Edition"
are fake-subtitled from the Japanese Joe 90!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k0V...
August 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/08/18/?...

users name babies "Iuma" after soon-defunct Internet Underground Music Archive
nancy.cc/2011/02/08/h...

fan wins date with "Lara Croft"
web.archive.org/web/20000816...

& "how much worse than a credit agency can the Chinese Government be?"
August 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/08/11/?...
Craig David namechecks "CD. com" on new track, a "leading supplier of multi-function adapters for server-based communications systems"

first/last mention of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition

& ISO 9000 post-mortem of the "Alien" films:
August 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
August 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/07/28/?...

advertisers make fake "I Kiss You" sites, for some reason
web.archive.org/web/20000728...
web.archive.org/web/20000728...
web.archive.org/web/20000728...

ends in sight for Napster, Concorde, .EXE mag

& VAR'AQ (Klingon Forth) doth battle with BANCstar
August 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM