"Wiki" -- it sounds to me like comebody scratching their fingernails
across a blackboard. It sounds techie par excellence....
I recall that, back before 2001, there was a web service: "Third voice",
that
enabled one to add annotations to any page on the web, by storing the
annotations and pointers to the source text in a database that was
shared by all Third Voice users. Of course it had the problem that if
someone
changed the page to which the annotation applied in a way that
removed the "link target" text, then the annotation became a "dead link"
(I'm
not sure if the dead annotations showed in the page, and, obviously, the
person could do something like rename the page, to guarantee that
the "Third Voice" annotations would not contaminate the purity of the
author's production....
"Wiki" -- I can see in my mind's eye at least one nerd whom I find
unbearable not because the person does anything bad, but because
they are always going on super nauseam (sp?) about techie
trivias that often shouldn't exist in the
first place except for the "free market" permitting many
incompatible ways to do one thing to "compete" -- compete
for persons who are techie enough to want to
master them all instead of having to learn [at most...] just
one way and be done with it.
As Dilbert said : "If you're not churning, you're not learning."
"Wiki" Was the term invented by unix? (Actually the UNIX operating
system seems pretty good, just the name would not likely be chosen by
anyone except a techie.)
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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