Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
The oldest infoboxes predate [[T:Infobox]], and
even templates
themselves; they will be very hard to count. The earliest infobox I
found was at [[Beryllium]], on 2 Feb 2002. It wasn't called "Infobox"
then, of course, but it certainly was one.
Wow. Hard-coded into the wikitext, I presume? The questioner might be
asking when the first templates were created, and might not realised
that the same thing can be done direct with using templates. When did
the template namespace start, anyway?
Yep, this was Maverick149's good work. I even confess to adapting his
model to battles and biological taxa. The hard-coding made things much
easier to follow than transclusions.
Ec