Add a short history of Solid

[timbl]

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There has been a lack of understanding of the basic history of th Solid Protocol in for example W3C discussions.

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Add a link to history in the about for example, and include the content of https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/history/AShortHistoryoftheSolidProtocol.html as a new page.

In a place where it is github controlled to others an suggest additions or corrections.

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I have suggested content for the moment parked here but wan't sure where to put inn the site and thought it should go in after the refactor.

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/history/AShortHistoryoftheSolidProtocol.html

[csarven]

There used to be /origin ( https://github.com/solid/solidproject.org/blob/e3316b386568e974c23d14b6b31b50eefcf18f6e/pages/origin.md ) on the website: https://web.archive.org/web/20230510025320/https://solidproject.org/origin but nowadays it redirects to https://solidproject.org//about (the double slash is not a typo.)

Aside: Tim, you do you as URI owner but I find the name "AShortHistoryoftheSolidProtocol" not so cool :) Wouldn't https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/history/solid-protocol suffice?

[timbl]

That name was generate in an export from g Docs! Yes not very good. But https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/history/solid-protocol has the practical problem that the editor tab is solid-protcol so how about https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/history/history-solid-protocol Editor tabs and command line completion are things in practice too.

[csarven]

I don't see /history/ being used in the past: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/*. Perhaps don't bother introducing it and just go with https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/solid-protocol-history ?

Aside: If only we invested time/money on a Solid/LD-centric application to author/publish documents instead of gDocs =)

[timbl]

@csarven The text was just a placeholder to allow me to get the content off into the solidproject.org web site. Hopefully once it is on there it can be maintained in github. Enough distraction about the URI of the placeholder already.

[csarven]

@timbl , I didn't mean to make a big deal out of it. It was an aside to begin with.

More importantly:

Are you open to getting feedback on the content?

For example, it is a bit puzzling why and how the formation of your VC-funded org and its "compatible" (as opposed to "interoperable") product gets such highlight, above and beyond all kinds of other contributions and contributors to the Solid Protocol...

I could annotate / make suggestions to improve quality or clarity. I was initially playing with:

https://csarven.solidcommunity.net/solid-protocol-history.html