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Wikipedia went live four years ago today, on January 15, 2001.
Amazingly, this crazy project we've gotten ourselves into is still on
the web, not _completely_ filled with Pokémon stubs and crackpot rants,
and even remains free of advertisements, supported by donations and a
lot of hard work.
Presented for your pleasure:
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/
This is a dump of the English Wikipedia page database from December 20,
2001 -- the oldest complete copy I was able to find. It's actually
running on the current MediaWiki software, so as a conversion necessity
some pages have been altered to make links work correctly. (Due to
limitations in the original conversion script, this version may
actually contain some data which is missing or corrupted in the main
database history on en.wikipedia.org.)
You can find even older, though more fragmentary, bits of Ancient
Wikipedia using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010331173908/http://www.wikipedia.com/
Happy Editing, everybody!
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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Wikipedia went live four years ago today, on January 15, 2001.
Amazingly, this crazy project we've gotten ourselves into is still on
the web, not _completely_ filled with Pokémon stubs and crackpot rants,
and even remains free of advertisements, supported by donations and a
lot of hard work.
Presented for your pleasure:
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/
This is a dump of the English Wikipedia page database from December 20,
2001 -- the oldest complete copy I was able to find. It's actually
running on the current MediaWiki software, so as a conversion necessity
some pages have been altered to make links work correctly. (Due to
limitations in the original conversion script, this version may
actually contain some data which is missing or corrupted in the main
database history on en.wikipedia.org.)
You can find even older, though more fragmentary, bits of Ancient
Wikipedia using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010331173908/http://www.wikipedia.com/
Happy Editing, everybody!
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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