One of the very first issues of Thursday Threads was on data centers (2011). That issue had articles on a major Amazon Web Services outage, remote data centers powered by renewable energy, and videos about Google's and Meta's data centers. Unfortunately, I've found that the videos are lost to time …

This week we revisit threads from a month ago, a year ago, and 12 years ago.

• ChatGPT references a non-existent book
• AI generating news articles
• Cryptocurrency miners in Texas forced to shut down due to electricity shortage
• Lament for a future that could have been: A Web presence for every …

Welcome to issue 80 of Thursday Threads. I'm so happy many of you chose to stick around and greetings to all of the new subscribers. To those that received my email last Thursday giving you a heads-up that a new issue would be coming to your inbox but then didn't …