Quote:And there's probably competing/complementary lists, as well.
It probably started as a FAQ-like list regularly posted to a newsgroup, updated as new ships were 'waved or made it to space -- probably handled much the way I handle the glossary thread.
Quote:As seen in "Disturbing Implications of Land Rising Into the Sky" - Noah asks Yoriko whether Grover's Corners is in the recognition database.
Eventually someone decided it was getting too big for that and turned it into some kind of website/database.
Quote:It's probably free. Whoever compiled the database would have shared it with, or sold it to, station owners and other BNFs, and at least one of them would probably have posted it to the Interwave.
The only question is did they decide to charge for it at any point, or is it still a "free service" of the community at large?
Then volunteers (such as A.C.) stepped up to maintain the thing...
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