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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
+
+[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+Just like a book, this topic is designed to help describe the tools used to
+create this website and what methods were used to give it its look and feel.
+
+
+# Rev. I
+
+We used a particular implementation (or clone) of Wiki software called
+[TWiki](http://twiki.org).
+
+A generic [WikiWikiWeb](http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors), or simply
+Wiki, is _"a collaborative forum where people can share ideas and record any
+consensus reached on difficult issues, along with rebuttal.  It changes as
+people come and go, as experience develops, and as opinions change."  The TWiki
+software is an enhanced descendent of the original WikiWikiWeb_.
+
+We used the [GNU Skin](http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/GnuSkin) created
+by our own Joachim Nilsson.
+
+This site began in May, 2002 as one TWiki web: *Hurd*.  This WebHome page was
+used as the front page of the whole site.  We grew this site and added more
+TWiki webs by December, 2002.  Due to the success of the site we had to act
+with respect to more completely addressing copyright issues.  More people
+started adding content.
+
+
+---
+
+# Rev. II
+
+On 2007-08-12 [[Thomas_Schwinge|tschwinge]] finished the conversion of the
+TWiki content to [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info).  Read
+[[about_the_twiki_to_ikiwiki_conversion]].
+
+
+---
+
+# Rev. III
+
+In November 2008, [[Thomas_Schwinge|tschwinge]] imported the Hurd's current web
+pages into this repository and made this the official GNU Hurd web appearance.