# The more things change...

By [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://paragraph.com/@nickgrossman) · 2015-06-13

diagrams, tech-design-internet

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Here's a slide from 2009, when we were [convincing transit agencies to open up their data](http://nytransitdata.org), and then later building [MTA BusTIme](http://bustime.mta.info):

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/67c37e21fd08aab717455952c424a9c4.png)

  And here's one from yesterday, from a talk I gave at the [Shift Conference](http://shiftsplit.com) (blog post to follow w more on that):

![Screen Shot 2015-06-13 at 2.56.20 PM](https://live-ngis.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-13-at-2.56.20-PM-1024x578.png)

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*Originally published on [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://paragraph.com/@nickgrossman/the-more-things-change)*