Isabell Long wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:25:41AM +0100, Charles Matthews wrote:
>   
>> Guardian stories today about 40 years of the Internet, part of it being 
>> a list of firsts:
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-history
>>
>> Apparently Wikipedia got going in 2004? I could have sworn it was 
>> earlier ... Where do they research these things?
>>     
>
> Maybe that's the year Wikipedia got a reasonable number of articles and they 
> knew it was going to stick around?
>
>   
Charitable. A visit to http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org would also shoot 
down the assertion that the early articles are lost and the early pages 
didn't maintain a page history.

Charles


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