Rosetta Code

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Rosetta Code came from an idea I had during Christmas of 2006. I'd recently revisited Wikibooks' [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/List_of_hello_world_programs List of Hello World Programs], and didn't care for its limited scope. As I was President of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20070328191022/http://grc4.org/ GRCC Computer Club] at the time, I convinced the club to host a project called Goodbye World (shortly renamed to Rosetta Code). I chose MediaWiki because I felt it would let me get started more quickly than any other system. Once I had a few categories and tasks set up, I submitted the page to Slashdot.
 
Well, if you take Slashdot, a shared hosting account, and an uncached MediaWiki setup, and throw them in a blender, you get a big mess. The kind folks at Geekalize noticed, and offered RC free hosting on their dedicated server. That carried RC through until the end of the arrangement in the fall of 2007. From Fall of 2007 until June of 2008, RC ran on my shared hosting account. From June-August of 2008, Rosetta Code sat on a Slicehost VPS account paid for by [[User:Qrush|Qrush]]. In August 2008, Rosetta Code moved to a Slicehost VPS account paid for by me. In September 2009, I moved Rosetta Code to Linode. In March of 2010, Rosetta Code moved from Linode to prgmr.com.
 
==What Rosetta Code Is==
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