I remember visiting DEC/Compaq WRL (which originated Alta vista) as a new grad student, and seeing my internship mentor at DEC SRC quit after my internship and

I remember visiting DEC/Compaq WRL (which originated Alta vista) as a new grad student, and seeing my internship mentor at DEC SRC quit after my internship and go to a new search engine startup in Palo Alto that wasn’t Alta visa (it worked out really well for him). But ya, wiki was magic when it came out, and it got better over time, but still not perfect. This is similar, it is going to have an impact even if it has lots of flaws.