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by shagie·9y ago·view on hn ↗
One of the important things to remember when reading C2.com pages is that they aren't written by a single person. They're more akin to wikipedia talk pages without signatures (variations of formatting are the hints to "someone else wrote this").

Reading it without this background may seem like the writings of a ranting crazy person. With the federated wiki remodel, this history was flattened.

The "Actually" part is likely a different author. And another author after the {hr}. And the bullet points under the missing padaradgim are other authors. Then another author for the hr block, and another author after the next one, and then yet another author at "I don't know..." and another author italicizing, and then one that signed as top and... so on and so on.

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Indeed. C2 was the first wiki, and these implementation details show why for a long time such a promising concept never went as far as it should have. The standard 'template' approach of wikipedia pages, and the clarity regards edit history were a great step forward.
There was an edit history.

If you look at an archive.org of the old site - http://web.archive.org/web/20160709091504/http://c2.com/cgi/... for example, at the bottom the edit date is a link. That took one to the edit history showing the IP address that made the change and the diff. It was also something that was robots.txt'ed and so isn't in archive.org.