Very early on in the history of the project, there was only one server and it was shared with the parent company (Bomis). Once it filled up it was simply cleared out. Unfortunately, this means that the earliest edits to the English Wikipedia are now lost :-( Ward Cunningham did the same thing with the first ever Wiki.
Unfortunately, people never know what is going to be interesting to the future and discard seemingly unimportant things only to discover their value later on - the archivists' perpetual problem. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia and also http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage (how the website used to look). -Liam [[witty lama]] wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 8 March 2010 11:07, Tyler <[email protected]> wrote: > How come, when I go to the edit history of the main page, I can't find a > revision from 2001? Only 2002. Is it because of that software change? > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
