Stephenson:Neal:The System of the World:492:an entry in a log-book

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25 Dec 2004

This style of collective writing reminds me a lot of wikis. There is even a pre-hypertextual [vide supra]. And the admonitions against misuses remind me even more of Wikipedia talk pages. -- Quinbus Flestrin

For at least years through 1983, the log-books which after-hours desk personnel at Caltech's Millikan Library kept sounded very much like this.