Computer History Wiki
The Computer History Wiki, "CHWiki" for short[1] is self-described as "to supplement and augment Wikipedia, not to compete... to get information that would not be suitable for the Wikipedia format - folklore, stories, tips and tricks, tutorials/guides, et cetera."[2]
It is online, searchable, and has a process for signing up as a contributor.
History
The Computer History Wiki's host, Gunkies.org, is a multi-purpose site. "Gunkies.org" was created as a personal site[3] that has expanded its focus; the Wiki is a major focus.
The Wiki's focus is on "older" systems, including for maintaining older hardware or running older software on Simulators.[4]
Open sourcing
It incorporates content from other resources, such as Flickr, and it covers many computing-related topics. Due to its availability under the GNU Free Documentation License, a copyleft license, it has in turn been incorporated in whole or part into other free content projects, such as Wikipedia.
Recognition
- Hacker News, which is over a decade old, uses - and cites them.[5]
- A Looking-back "Top 10 Websites for Windows 95 Facts" listing[6] listed Gunkies as one of their 10.[7]
- Other social-media quote/cite them[8]
- book citations[9][10]
Impact
Impact has gone beyond individuals[11][12] finding useful information.[13]
Technical sites direct readers to Gunkies,[14][15] One called it "a wiki dedicated to retro-computing."[16] and it has attracted interest from Wikipedia contributors.[17][16][18]
Origin of the Gunkies name
The web site is named for a fictitious product named Apple Gunkies.
Apple Gunkies
MIT had two radio stations, AM airing commercials, and FM operating as non-commercial. The latter aired Public service announcements between programs, but also at times aired "commercials for fictitious products."[19] One of these fictitious products was named Apple Gunkies.[20] The Boston Globe included their programming among its radio and television listings.[21]
How it differs
Unlike Wikipedia, neither full length articles nor stubs, which might be so-labelled yet have extensive content[22] feature footnotes or references.
See also
- Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)
References
- ↑ "Main Page".
- ↑ "Computer History Wiki".
- ↑ "Welcome!".
This is my domain, named in tribute to ...
- ↑ "About".
- ↑ A PDP-11 article "They're pretty easy to emulate".
- ↑ "Top 10 Websites for Windows 95 Facts".
- ↑ Forbes.com, Britannica.com, 3 from Microsoft.com were among the other 9.
- ↑ A PDP-11/70 item "Digital PDP-11/70 - 1975".
- ↑ Citing Gunkies' "Kiss It Goodbye" comment about Windows 3.0 Anastasia Salter (2017). Computer Games. ISBN 1501327437. Search this book on
- ↑ "4.3BSD-Quasijarus".
For more details on 4.3BSD Quasijarus please see http://gunkies.org/wiki/4.3_BSD_Quasijarus.
- ↑ "x86". March 27, 2017.
For most of the following, I've used the instructions found here at gunkies.org for getting 386BSD running on Qemu.
- ↑ "Decuser".
ODT runs the program until it hits the breakpoint. ... The document that helped me get up and running http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_RT-11_5.3_on_SIMH
- ↑ "Retro Computing Roundtable". iTunes.Apple.com.
The enduring legacy of Zork ... on the Computer History wiki
- ↑ "Hercules390 - VM". May 19, 2010.
- ↑ "Computer History and Restoration Links". July 3, 2018.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Interesting wiki site". February 6, 2009.
- ↑ The bio of an administrator who joined in 2017 said he's also a Wikipedia admin.
- ↑ "I’ve started to redo some of my work ... over there. Hopefully this will get more people interested in the whole thing.
- ↑ Robert J. Sales, News Office (April 4, 2001). "At age 40, WMBR keeps riding the waves".
- ↑ "Boston Radio roots". BostonRadio.org.
WMBR traces its roots back to an MIT campus-only carrier-current AM station ... of humorous “hack” commercials for fictitious products such as “Apple Gunkies”.
- ↑ "The Boston Globe". May 2, 1964.
8:45 Apple Gunkies Presents. 9:00 News
- ↑ "Amiga".
 | This software article is a stub. You can help EverybodyWiki by expanding it. |
This article "Computer History Wiki" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Computer History Wiki. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
