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More links to historical stuff and troggle docm to do list

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@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ A <a href="survexhistory96.htm">history of survex</a> article covering the perio
<h3>Initial cave data management</h3>
<p>Along with centrelines and sketches, descriptions of caves were also affected by improvements
in data management. In a crucial breakthrough, Andrew Waddinton introduced the use of the
nascent markup language HTML to create an interlinked, navigable system of descriptions. Links
nascent markup language HTML to create an interlinked, navigable system of descriptions (see <a href="c21bs.html">"Expo Bullshit"</a>). Links
in HTML documents could mimic the branched and often circular structure of the caves themselves.
For example, the reader could now follow a link out of the main passage into a side passage, and
then be linked back into the main passage description at the point where the side passage
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ This reads in all the logbooks and surveys and provides a nice way to access the
It was separate for a while until Martin Green added code to merge the old static pages and
new troggle dynamic pages into the same site. This is now the live system running everything (in 2019). Work on developing Troggle further still continues sporadically (see <a href="troggle-ish.html">Troggle notes</a>).</p>
<p>After Expo 2009 the version control system was updated to hg (Mercurial),
<p>After Expo 2009 the version control system was updated to a <a href="onlinesystems.html#mercurial">DVCS</a> (Mercurial, aka 'hg'),
because a distributed version control system makes a great deal of sense for expo
(where it goes offline for a month or two and nearly all the year's edits happen).</p>
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ data was split into separate repositories: the website,
troggle, the survey data, the tunnel data. Seagrass was turned off at
the end of 2013, and the site has been hosted by Sam Wenham at the
university since Feb 2014.
In 2018 we have 4 repositories, see <a href="manual.html#repositoriesl">the website manual</a></p>.
In 2018 we have 4 repositories, see <a href="manual.html#repositories">the website manual</a></p>.
<p>In spring 2018 Sam, Wookey and Paul Fox updated the Linux version and the Django version (i.e. troggle) to
something vaguely acceptable to the university computing service and fixed all the problems that were then observed.