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The site's engine was kind of [suckless](suckless.md)/[KISS](kiss.md), even Wikipedia looks [bloated](bloat.md) compared to it. It was pure unformatted [HTML](html.md) that used a very clever system of [hyperlinks](hypertext.md) between articles: any [CamelCase](camelcase.md) multiword in the text was interpreted as a link to an article, so for example the word `SoftwareDevelopment` was automatically a link to a page called *Software Development*. This presented a slight issue e.g. for single-word topics but the creativity required for overcoming the obstacle was part of the [fun](fun.md), for example the article on [C](c.md) was called `CeeLanguage`.
Overall the site was also very different from [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md) and allowed informal comments, jokes and subjective opinions in the text. It was pretty entertaining to read. There's a lot of old hacker wisdom to be found there.
Overall the site was also very different from [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md) and allowed informal comments, [jokes](jokes.md) and subjective opinions in the text. It was pretty entertaining to read. There's a lot of old hacker wisdom to be found there. On the other hand it was a bit retarded too though, a bit like [hacker news](hacker_news.md) of its time, except a tiny bit less stupid maybe. The people were not as much focused on pure hacking but rather on "software engineering", i.e. manipulating and "managing" people, they were obsessed with [OOP](oop.md) patterns and things like that.
There are other wikis that work in similar spirit, e.g. CommunityWiki (https://communitywiki.org, a wiki "about communities"), MeatBallWiki (http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/) or EmacsWiki.