--- Christopher Mahan <chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Tom Parmenter <tompar(a)world.std.com> wrote:
I imagine many of us (most of us?) first encountered the
wikipedia
in
a google search. I know I did.
Surprisingly I didn't.
I was briefly involved in the GNU-Encyclopedia discussion in Jan
2001. (still have those pages on my website).
http://www.christophermahan.com/gne/
Then that project was scrapped for Nupedia. The rest is history as
they say.
But there is a pointer to Wikipedia at
http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/
For those of you who are interested in historical stuff...
More historical
discussion about some of the early issues of
G/N/W-Pedias:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gne/
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gne/
=====
Christopher Mahan
chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com
818.943.1850 cell
http://www.christophermahan.com/
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