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By one account ([http://lists.freegeek.org/pipermail/c7/2007-January/000632.html this one], item 5786), this particular reflection of Free Geek's history may or should or will be assoc' (collective memory, lessons learned).  Of these particular associates, comment that "lessons learned" seems just as closely associated with another, "education", which Free Geek, in time, will also change forever. 
 
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To express this another way, education seems also closely associated with self-organization, and so closely that, eef not eedenteecal, then so dynamically intertwined as to be presently irresolvable.  Or so it would seem.
 
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Hence this is as if the lightest of pencil sketches of "collective memory" only, as if a pencil sketch and not "something else entirely" (i.e, wikitech).
 
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Next, extending the headings offered (By Era, By Date), might be continued by identifying and beginning to link existing wiki pages under these (e.g., Founding Document of the Council). 
 
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[[User:Moorere|Moorere]] 12:16, 24 January 2007 (PST)
 
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It is as if branches of a tree were beginning to extend themselves.  And in the normal course of events, they might all continue to grow, with multiple extensions.  Or (another possibility), some may not. 
 
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Present' interesting models might be this [http://www.afj.org/about_AFJ/history/index.html Alliance for Justice] page, and [[WikiPedia:History_of_wikipedia|History of Wikipedia]]... examples from a wide range of possibilities.  Also interesting may be different perspectives around present intersection of [http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/9 "history" and webtech].
 
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[[User:Moorere|Moorere]] 22:33, 26 January 2007 (PST)
 
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===Geekstorians Wanted: Reply Within (Yousellyselves, Geeki Peeps)===
 
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There are those, and not only our owners, who remain presently enchanted by an essay written shortly before the Soviet Union voted itself out of existance, entitled [[WikiPedia:End of history|The End of History]]. I was enchanted by it because the thesis that history had ended, if true, would seem to have unimaginably extensive consequences and implications.  And they're still unimaginable... and fascinating. 
 
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In a world without history, not only would nothing ever change, it would be impossible to be aware of change.  Wouldn't it?  In fact, change itself might actually become unthinkable, except as a sort of systemic transgression or subversion of the status quo.  And this line of speculation of course quickly leads to a logical inference: if change were impossible, transgression of normative normynorms could not possibly have any effect (change being impossible), and would therefore be utterly futile.
 
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And that would be sort of a relief, really (at least for some people).  Social change, for instance, could occur  at its own collective pace, as our owners chose appropriate opportunities to most profitably "[[WikiPedia:United States Declaration of Independence|effect their Safety and Happiness]]" (and by extension '''af'''fect everyones, at least to some degree).  [[WikiPedia:Thoughtcrime|Thoughtcrime]] becoming impossible, only normal normative normynorms ("graciousness," "politeness," "civility," "sensitivity," "political correctness")
 
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What does this have to do with Free Geek's history?  To all appearances, history seems to go on by itself, with almost unnoticable regard to its collective manifestations.  It seems to me that people and groups weave themselves into its wonderfully intricate tapestry, though this fact has been somewhat obscure during previous centuries of print-only publishing. 
 
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And Free Geek's history, begun so tentatively (as all wiki' seem to be), for me, represents another instance of an impression that I got the first time I walked in the door: that history had just begun... that it had begun, not as if for the first time, but for exactly the very first time ever (and ''Phht!'' to the trivial ways that (whatever) had been done before. It was wonderful, as if a "gift" from an invisible "gift-giver," as I went through my program and received my Freekbox, to be (and have been) a part of its timeless, eternal experience of beginning,
 
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In this tiny context, p'rhaps I can "give back" something.  I know I desire to.  But realistically its collective self-identity would best be described by those nearer its  average age and gender.  All the wiki' I've done here has been (and will continue to be) as if "hinting"... and here's one explicitly, simply writing what's probably obvious: Free Geek "wiki' aboot its history" will very soone become an intensely self-demanding recursive set of influential changes, when those who experienced it begin helping build it.   
 
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And currently, there's an obscure technique of historical narrative that continues to fascinate'...
 

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