[sword-devel] FAQ on CrossWire.org

[Daniel Glassey]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:11 AM, David Haslam <d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> The FAQ on the main site should be culled from the one on the CrossWire
> developers' wiki.
> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/EnduserFAQ
> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/EnduserFAQ
>
> PocketSword is already mentioned there.
>
> According to the Wayback Machine, the first archived copy of crosswire.org
> is dated Feb 20, 2002.
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://crosswire.org/index.jsp
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://crosswire.org/index.jsp
>
> Found easily via the Firefox addon called
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570 Resurrect Page .
>
> Thus CrossWire must have been founded prior to that, perhaps a few months
> before.
> Troy can give you the exact date.

Quite a few months before that. The earliest release still in the
archive is 1.1 dated October '98. And I don't think that was the start
either.

ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/source/v1.1/

Funnily enough http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.crosswire.org
shows older copies than you found there.

Regards,
Daniel