This week in tech, 20 years ago
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As a person who covers day-to-day technology news, I often wonder how my writing might come off to someone in the future — and whether anyone will even be reading it. I can’t answer those questions, but I can do the next best thing: look back at what other people were writing 20 years ago.
Here are five stories — big and small — that science and tech enthusiasts might have checked out during the week before March 24th, 1998.
“Murder by Internet”
Vermont teen Chris Marquis, according to news reports, was a high school dropout living with his mother. He was also an obnoxious, abusive CB radio troll who sold radio equipment online and scammed his customers. When his furious victims began swapping reports, they fantasized in chats about…
