can someone explain this r00tw0rm business to me? how would someone that's post-r00tw0rm know that r00tw0rm is? haha
Using the dictionary as an example, the "unabridged" dictionary of keyboards does not exist.
Pre-R00TW0RM, the "wiki" section of Geekhack was perhaps the biggest and best reference available anywhere, while the current GH wikis (and slightly more comprehensive Deskthority wikis) are little more than "pocket" paperbacks at best.
I am a lazy sod, and had only made a few small contributions, each with a dozen photos and a dozen paragraphs of instructions on deconstructing and rebuilding Model M/Fs, but even those are gone.
It is hard for me to comprehend someone deliberately eliminating work that took hundreds of hours of his own time to create, and especially since it was work that benefited hundreds or thousands of people, greatly, in their quest to educate themselves about mechanical keyboards.