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Yes, I remember - I had a copy on an SD card on my OLPC.

I believed it morphed into "Wikipedia for Schools" ^0 - possibly this ^1 is a comment about it?

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_for_Scho...

1: https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/11/11/wikipedia-to-go...

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Tangent - I’ve noticed a lot more comments like this using the “^0” syntax for citations vs the traditional “[0]” one I’ve become accustomed to seeing on HN. Is there a real shift happening here and, if so, why?

Sorry about that, thanks for pointing it out. I'll learn.

It's a bit non-standard, and if it's trying to follow the wikipedia citation style then it's the wrong way round.

maybe: https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-footnotes-now-suppo...

Checking to see if supported on HN [^1]

Edit: nope :)

[^1]: https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-footnotes-now-suppo...

others use HN "viewers"

all the links always appear plaintext for me

thank you very much. that page brings me back. it even has technorati tags.

by the way, do you still have an olpc? i never got to use one but remember seeing them. my one weird piece of similar era tech is a cr48, the early chromebook google gave away. I remember on the form for requesting them it asked what you would do with it. i responded “install linux on it” and they gave me one.

Yes, I still have mine from the Give-One-Get-One program. It's still my favorite screen for sunny day use. It still works, I've been using a power supply from an X30 ThinkPad as I have no idea where the original went.

My neighbor years ago used to always chuckle at me using it with an Happy Hacking Pro keyboard because of the price difference between the two.

I said “develop/add olpc support to various bootloaders to help spur development, adoption, and utility” and they didn’t give me one.

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