alt Hacker NewsI love these two projects for how they are, and continue to be, built. They say something hopeful and deep about humanity.
Before Linux and Wikipedia, we assumed that if you gave everyone a sharpie, that we would graffiti and deface the world.
Instead, we learned that humans will stop and sit and write the most thorough history ever seen for the sake of free knowledge and create the tools for us to do so.
Of course, there are still plenty of people who will dive into graffiti, but it is greatly encouraging that there is still a large enough force to push them back in favor of order and beauty. Not all is lost in the world.