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Not too long ago, I managed to pretty much ruin the wiki for a small (and at that time opensource) CNC machine by using it as my personal notebook --- probably my usage of it thus was a big part of why it was left off-line when the person hosting it moved.

You can see it on the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211127090321/https://wiki.shap...

In retrospect, I should have put some of that effort into:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Hobbyist_CNC_Machining

although since then, a machine owner worked up:

https://shapeokoenthusiasts.gitbook.io/shapeoko-cnc-a-to-z

I still regret a bunch of stuff I didn't keep copies of, esp. the scans of Barry Hughart's notes for his novels.

The irony is that one can see a bit of the result of discussion of this sort of thing at the top of one's browser window --- the URL bar, where URL == "Uniform Resource Locator" --- the originally proposed term was "Universal Resource Locator", but the argument against that was that people were not librarians, and that unlike Ted Nelson's Xanadu, there wouldn't an over-arching data structure and organization, so a given document wouldn't have a single canonical location.

Anyone interested in this sort of thing who hasn't read it, should read Tim Berner-Lee's book:

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/Overview.html




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