on 4/10/07 1:19 PM, Earle Martin at wikipedia(a)downlode.org wrote:
The Wikipedia system followed from the WikiWikiWeb
category system,
which was developed in 1996 to categorize pages on that wiki. For
historical context, see
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CategoriesDiscussion ,
and some of the pages linked from this archived page:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961129234150/http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AboutCateg…
esAndTopics
, followed by
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_category_schemes
and its associated talk page.
Earle,
Thank you very much for this.
Marc