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Why a Wiki? As I live and breath, I adore a Wiki—and especially a MediaWiki. It is such a powerful tool and offers so much power and flexibilty of presentation. This ability to structure and organize information leads to some extraordinary things – like Wikipedia. I have been a occasional contributor to Wikipedia for two decades, and I send in money every year to support it and keep it free of advertising.

In 2005 I hired on with a local Credit Union and was tasked with setting up internal systems for tech support and employee policy documentation. I cobbled together that first server with FreeBSD and set up a MediaWiki and Bugzilla. I customized both and branded them for the credit union. Later I upgraded to a decent server with a new release of FreeBSD. About six years later I replaced that server, and fifteen years in, migrated the assets to virtual servers running Redhat Linux. The two applications hosted millions of records, and contained a high fidelity recording of fifteen years of IT Activities and Tech Support. The value of these assets are something I am very proud of to this day.

Since I retired from working for the man, I have really missed the Wiki. To be completely honest, I cannot cost justify this Wiki. But I care not. Though I got a belated start on this, I will record the history of Impulse Launch Systems and make this a useful and searchable reference for our business, our products, and certain aspects of our hobby.