Sources of whois history include:
- whois-history.whoisxmlapi.com/ from whoisXMLAPI. Notably they also have historical reverse WHOIS... tools.whoisxmlapi.com/reverse-whois-search but it needs credits. TODO we need to squeeze this a but further at some point.
When that data comes in JSON format as from whoisXMLAPI, we are going to just dump it in github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/master/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/whois.json
The vast majority of domains seem to be registered either via domainsbyproxy.com which likely intgrates with Godaddy and is widely used, and seems to give zero infromation at all about the registrar.
A much smaller number however uses other methods, some of which sometimes leak a little bit of data:Big question: webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/13237/how-do-you-view-domain-whois-history DomainTools also has it.
- Network Solutions, LLC. These sometimes give a tiny bit of information: one name. Other times they are hidden behind Perfect Privacy, LLC. Examples>Pulley, Tammy
- alljohnny.net: L. Glaze. tools.whoisxmlapi.com/reverse-whois-search "Glaze, L." has
- webstorageforme.com. web.archive.org/web/20130917230604/http://webstorageforme.com/ broken, cqcounter.com/whois/www/webstorageforme.com.html blank
- welcometonyc.net. Hit!
- international-smallbusiness.com. Same IP as alljohnny.net and quite possibly hit..
- alljohnny.com. Hit!
- locateontheweb.com. cqcounter.com/whois/www/locateontheweb.com.html broken/test page
- rolling-in-rapids.com. web.archive.org/web/20111101080224/rolling-in-rapids.com no archives but cqcounter.com/whois/www/rolling-in-rapids.com.html hit style! viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=rolling-in-rapids.com puts it at:
- 208.91.197.132 British Virgin Islands CONFLUENCE-NETWORK-INC 2014-01-31
- 65.218.91.9 United States UUNET 2013-12-20 so matchwith welcometonyc.com but not listed at viewdns.info/reverseip/?t=1&host=65.218.91.9 because of the viewdns.info reverse IP bug!
- differentviewtoday.com: tools.whoisxmlapi.com/whois-history-search kind of empty no name
but presumably these are the names of employees of the company? We are yet to see two identical names however, which also suggests fake names. Network Solutions appears to offer both hosting and domain registration, and the CIA seems to have used this service combo a lot.- golf-on-holiday.com: Pulley, Tammy. No tools.whoisxmlapi.com/whois-history-search reverse hits.
- intoworldnews.com: Benjamin McGrew. Only that hit for reverse name at tools.whoisxmlapi.com/reverse-whois-search
- magneticfieldnews.com: Sarah Lowell tools.whoisxmlapi.com/reverse-whois-search has 9 domains
- sarahlowell.com: web.archive.org/web/20110208130657/http://sarahlowell.com/ Yoga instructor.
- puppychallengesacademy.com
- sarahlowelldogtraining.com
- puppychallenges.com. web.archive.org/web/20130517151924/http://puppychallenges.com/ wordpress.
- puppychallenges.net
- realwomensduathlon.com. No archives of era: web.archive.org/web/20180808101430/http://realwomensduathlon.com/
- magneticfieldnews.com. Hit.
- highflyingagility.com. Legit? Service offer.
- ropies.com. web.archive.org/web/20111101080224/http://ropies.com/
- medicatechinfo.com: Jason Noll. Has the following hits at tools.whoisxmlapi.com/reverse-whois-search
- dreamschemedesigns.com. Legit
- dreamschemedesigns.net
- aviationturbinesinternational.com. No relevant archives.
- garysluhan.com. Seems legit.
- cjlogic.com: registrar Godaddy (not Network Services!) and contact:This image is his Gmail's current profile image as of 2025: openclipart.org/detail/19437/high-wing-airplane
Noll, Jason noll.jason@gmail.com 104 Southridge Ct. Marthasville, Missouri 63357 United States (660) 441-0780 Fax -- - medicatechinfo.com. Hit.
- health-men-today.com. Hit. Holy fuck it has two hits out of 7!!!
- mydailynewsreport.com: Rebecca Melancon on tools.whoisxmlapi.com/reverse-whois-search:
- rebecca-melancon.com. web.archive.org/web/20180808172531/http://rebecca-melancon.com/ pilates teacher
- swlabuyahome.net
- swlalistmyhome.net
- rebeccaworking4yousite.com
- mylakecharlescityguide.com
- swlalistmyhome.com
- rebeccaworking4you.com
- swlabuyahome.com
- calcasieuhouses.com web.archive.org/web/20111013212502/http://calcasieuhouses.com/. Wordpress. Copyright Rebecca Melancon, Equal Housing Opportunity.
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- mydailynewsreport.com. Hit.
- plugged-into-news.net: Godfrey Hubbard. Searching tools.whoisxmlapi.com/reverse-whois-search for two terms "Godfrey" "Hubbard" gives a small list of 20 domains including plugged-into-news.net. They all appear to have both words in them. Searching just "Hubbard, Godfrey" has only 3 hits:so it seems to match the strings exactly!
- hubbardgodfrey.online
- plugged-into-news.net
- hubbardgodfrey.com
- alljohnny.net: L. Glaze. tools.whoisxmlapi.com/reverse-whois-search "Glaze, L." has
- godaddy without domainsbyproxy.com: a few of the websites are registered in Godaddy without domainsbyproxy. These might be the ones that gives out the most information:
- baocontact.com
How on Earth did did Citizen Labs find what seems to be a DNS fingerprint??? Are there simply some very rare badly registered domains? What did they see!
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As of essential metabolism for a minimal cell (2019) it had only 91 genes of unknown function! So funny.
Bibliograpy:
Ways in which it can happen:
www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-Steve-Jobs-Elon-Musk-or-Sir-Richard-Branson/answer/Justine-Musk is a fantastic ansewr by Justine Musk, Elon Musk's ex-fife, to the question:One of her key thesis is Many successful people are neurodiverse:
How can I be as great as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Sir Richard Branson?
These people tend to be freaks and misfits who were forced to experience the world in an unusually challenging way. They developed strategies to survive, and as they grow older they find ways to apply these strategies to other things, and create for themselves a distinct and powerful advantage. They don't think the way other people think. They see things from angles that unlock new ideas and insights. Other people consider them to be somewhat insane.
The product operator formalism is a mathematical framework used in the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to describe the behavior of spin systems under various operations, such as radiofrequency (RF) pulse sequences and interactions with magnetic fields. It enables physicists and chemists to analyze and manipulate the quantum states of spins in a structured way.
CIA 2010 covert communication websites 2013 DNS census NS records by
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
We can also cut down the data a lot with stackoverflow.com/questions/1915636/is-there-a-way-to-uniq-by-column/76605540#76605540 and tld filtering:This brings us down to a much more manageable 3.0 GB, 83 M rows.
awk -F, 'BEGIN{OFS=","} { if ($1 != last) { print $1, $3; last = $1; } }' ns.csv | grep -E '\.(com|net|info|org|biz),' > nsu.csvLet's just scan it once real quick to start with, since likely nothing will come of this venue:As of 267 hits we get:so yeah, most of those are likely going to be humongous just by looking at the names.
grep -f <(awk -F, 'NR>1{print $2}' ../media/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/hits.csv) nsu.csv | tee nsu-hits.csv
cat nsu-hits.csv | csvcut -c 2 | sort | awk -F. '{OFS="."; print $(NF-1), $(NF)}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k1 -n 1 a2hosting.com
1 amerinoc.com
1 ayns.net
1 dailyrazor.com
1 domainingdepot.com
1 easydns.com
1 frienddns.ru
1 hostgator.com
1 kolmic.com
1 name-services.com
1 namecity.com
1 netnames.net
1 tonsmovies.net
1 webmailer.de
2 cashparking.com
55 worldnic.com
86 domaincontrol.comThe smallest ones by far from the total are: frienddns.ru with only 487 hits, all others quite large or fake hits due to CSV. Did a quick Wayback Machine CDX scanning there but no luck alas.
Let's check the smaller ones:Doubt anything will come out of this.
inews-today.com,2013-08-12T03:14:01,ns1.frienddns.ru
source-commodities.net,2012-12-13T20:58:28,ns1.namecity.com -> fake hit due to grep e-commodities.net
dailynewsandsports.com,2013-08-13T08:36:28,ns3.a2hosting.com
just-kidding-news.com,2012-02-04T07:40:50,jns3.dailyrazor.com
fightwithoutrules.com,2012-11-09T01:17:40,sk.s2.ns1.ns92.kolmic.com
fightwithoutrules.com,2013-07-01T22:46:23,ns1625.ztomy.com
half-court.net,2012-09-10T09:49:15,sk.s2.ns1.ns92.kolmic.com
half-court.net,2013-07-07T00:31:12,ns1621.ztomy.com Archaea are more cosely related to the eukaryotes than bacteria by
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CIA 2010 covert communication websites 2013 DNS census SOA records by
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Same as 2013 DNS census NS records basically, nothing came out.
Does not appear to have any reverse IP hits unfortunately: opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/1951/dataset-of-domain-names/21077#21077. Likely only has domains that were explicitly advertised.
We could not find anything useful in it so far, but there is great potential to use this tool to find new IP ranges based on properties of existing IP ranges. Part of the problem is that the dataset is huge, and is split by top 256 bytes. But it would be reasonable to at least explore ranges with pre-existing known hits...
We have started looking for patterns on
66.* and 208.*, both selected as two relatively far away ranges that have a number of pre-existing hits. 208 should likely have been 212 considering later finds that put several ranges in 212.tcpip_fp:
- 66.104.
- 66.104.175.41: grubbersworldrugbynews.com: 1346397300 SCAN(V=6.01%E=4%D=1/12%OT=22%CT=443%CU=%PV=N%G=N%TM=387CAB9E%P=mipsel-openwrt-linux-gnu),ECN(R=N),T1(R=N),T2(R=N),T3(R=N),T4(R=N),T5(R=N),T6(R=N),T7(R=N),U1(R=N),IE(R=N)
- 66.104.175.48: worlddispatch.net: 1346816700 SCAN(V=6.01%E=4%D=1/2%OT=22%CT=443%CU=%PV=N%DC=I%G=N%TM=1D5EA%P=mipsel-openwrt-linux-gnu),SEQ(SP=F8%GCD=3%ISR=109%TI=Z%TS=A),ECN(R=N),T1(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=),T1(R=N),T2(R=N),T3(R=N),T4(R=N),T5(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=),T6(R=N),T7(R=N),U1(R=N),IE(R=N)
- 66.104.175.49: webworldsports.com: 1346692500 SCAN(V=6.01%E=4%D=9/3%OT=22%CT=443%CU=%PV=N%DC=I%G=N%TM=5044E96E%P=mipsel-openwrt-linux-gnu),SEQ(SP=105%GCD=1%ISR=108%TI=Z%TS=A),OPS(O1=M550ST11NW6%O2=M550ST11NW6%O3=M550NNT11NW6%O4=M550ST11NW6%O5=M550ST11NW6%O6=M550ST11),WIN(W1=1510%W2=1510%W3=1510%W4=1510%W5=1510%W6=1510),ECN(R=N),T1(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=),T1(R=N),T2(R=N),T3(R=N),T4(R=N),T5(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=),T6(R=N),T7(R=N),U1(R=N),IE(R=N)
- 66.104.175.50: fly-bybirdies.com: 1346822100 SCAN(V=6.01%E=4%D=1/1%OT=22%CT=443%CU=%PV=N%DC=I%G=N%TM=14655%P=mipsel-openwrt-linux-gnu),SEQ(TI=Z%TS=A),ECN(R=N),T1(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=),T1(R=N),T2(R=N),T3(R=N),T4(R=N),T5(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=),T6(R=N),T7(R=N),U1(R=N),IE(R=N)
- 66.104.175.53: info-ology.net: 1346712300 SCAN(V=6.01%E=4%D=9/4%OT=22%CT=443%CU=%PV=N%DC=I%G=N%TM=50453230%P=mipsel-openwrt-linux-gnu),SEQ(SP=FB%GCD=1%ISR=FF%TI=Z%TS=A),ECN(R=N),T1(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=),T1(R=N),T2(R=N),T3(R=N),T4(R=N),T5(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=),T6(R=N),T7(R=N),U1(R=N),IE(R=N)
- 66.175.106
- 66.175.106.150: noticiasmusica.net: 1340077500 SCAN(V=5.51%D=1/3%OT=22%CT=443%CU=%PV=N%G=N%TM=38707542%P=mipsel-openwrt-linux-gnu),ECN(R=N),T1(R=N),T2(R=N),T3(R=N),T4(R=N),T5(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=),T6(R=N),T7(R=N),U1(R=N),IE(R=N)
- 66.175.106.155: atomworldnews.com: 1345562100 SCAN(V=5.51%D=8/21%OT=22%CT=443%CU=%PV=N%DC=I%G=N%TM=5033A5F2%P=mips-openwrt-linux-gnu),SEQ(SP=FB%GCD=1%ISR=FC%TI=Z%TS=A),ECN(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%W=1540%O=M550NNSNW6%CC=N%Q=),T1(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=),T2(R=N),T3(R=N),T4(R=N),T5(R=Y%DF=Y%TG=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=),T6(R=N),T7(R=N),U1(R=N),IE(R=N)
CIA 2010 covert communication websites 2012 Internet Census hostprobes by
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Hostprobes quick look on two ranges:
208.254.40:
... similar down
208.254.40.95 1334668500 down no-response
208.254.40.95 1338270300 down no-response
208.254.40.95 1338839100 down no-response
208.254.40.95 1339361100 down no-response
208.254.40.95 1346391900 down no-response
208.254.40.96 1335806100 up unknown
208.254.40.96 1336979700 up unknown
208.254.40.96 1338840900 up unknown
208.254.40.96 1339454700 up unknown
208.254.40.96 1346778900 up echo-reply (0.34s latency).
208.254.40.96 1346838300 up echo-reply (0.30s latency).
208.254.40.97 1335840300 up unknown
208.254.40.97 1338446700 up unknown
208.254.40.97 1339334100 up unknown
208.254.40.97 1346658300 up echo-reply (0.26s latency).
... similar up
208.254.40.126 1335708900 up unknown
208.254.40.126 1338446700 up unknown
208.254.40.126 1339330500 up unknown
208.254.40.126 1346494500 up echo-reply (0.24s latency).
208.254.40.127 1335840300 up unknown
208.254.40.127 1337793300 up unknown
208.254.40.127 1338853500 up unknown
208.254.40.127 1346454900 up echo-reply (0.23s latency).
208.254.40.128 1335856500 up unknown
208.254.40.128 1338200100 down no-response
208.254.40.128 1338749100 down no-response
208.254.40.128 1339334100 down no-response
208.254.40.128 1346607900 down net-unreach
208.254.40.129 1335699900 up unknown
... similar downSuggests exactly 127 - 96 + 1 = 31 IPs.
208.254.42:
... similar down
208.254.42.191 1334522700 down no-response
208.254.42.191 1335276900 down no-response
208.254.42.191 1335784500 down no-response
208.254.42.191 1337845500 down no-response
208.254.42.191 1338752700 down no-response
208.254.42.191 1339332300 down no-response
208.254.42.191 1346499900 down net-unreach
208.254.42.192 1334668500 up unknown
208.254.42.192 1336808700 up unknown
208.254.42.192 1339334100 up unknown
208.254.42.192 1346766300 up echo-reply (0.40s latency).
208.254.42.193 1335770100 up unknown
208.254.42.193 1338444900 up unknown
208.254.42.193 1339334100 up unknown
... similar up
208.254.42.221 1346517900 up echo-reply (0.19s latency).
208.254.42.222 1335708900 up unknown
208.254.42.222 1335708900 up unknown
208.254.42.222 1338066900 up unknown
208.254.42.222 1338747300 up unknown
208.254.42.222 1346872500 up echo-reply (0.27s latency).
208.254.42.223 1335773700 up unknown
208.254.42.223 1336949100 up unknown
208.254.42.223 1338750900 up unknown
208.254.42.223 1339334100 up unknown
208.254.42.223 1346854500 up echo-reply (0.13s latency).
208.254.42.224 1335665700 down no-response
208.254.42.224 1336567500 down no-response
208.254.42.224 1338840900 down no-response
208.254.42.224 1339425900 down no-response
208.254.42.224 1346494500 down time-exceeded
... similar downSuggests exactly 223 - 192 + 1 = 31 IPs.
It does appears that long sequences of ranges are a sort of fingerprint. The question is how unique it would be.
First:This reduces us to 2 million IP rows from the total possible 16 million IPs.
n=208
time awk '$3=="up"{ print $1 }' $n | uniq -c | sed -r 's/^ +//;s/ /,/' | tee $n-up-uniq
t=$n-up-uniq.sqlite
rm -f $t
time sqlite3 $t 'create table tmp(cnt text, i text)'
time sqlite3 $t ".import --csv $n-up-uniq tmp"
time sqlite3 $t 'create table t (i integer)'
time sqlite3 $t '.load ./ip' 'insert into t select str2ipv4(i) from tmp'
time sqlite3 $t 'drop table tmp'
time sqlite3 $t 'create index ti on t(i)'OK now just counting hits on fixed windows has way too many results:
sqlite3 208-up-uniq.sqlite "\
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT min(i), COUNT(*) OVER (
ORDER BY i RANGE BETWEEN 15 PRECEDING AND 15 FOLLOWING
) as c FROM t
) WHERE c > 20 and c < 30
"Let's try instead consecutive ranges of length exactly 31 instead then:271. Hmm. A bit more than we'd like...
sqlite3 208-up-uniq.sqlite <<EOF
SELECT f, t - f as c FROM (
SELECT min(i) as f, max(i) as t
FROM (SELECT i, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY i) - i as grp FROM t)
GROUP BY grp
ORDER BY i
) where c = 31
EOFAnother route is to also count the ups:
n=208
time awk '$3=="up"{ print $1 }' $n | uniq -c | sed -r 's/^ +//;s/ /,/' | tee $n-up-uniq-cnt
t=$n-up-uniq-cnt.sqlite
rm -f $t
time sqlite3 $t 'create table tmp(cnt text, i text)'
time sqlite3 $t ".import --csv $n-up-uniq-cnt tmp"
time sqlite3 $t 'create table t (cnt integer, i integer)'
time sqlite3 $t '.load ./ip' 'insert into t select cnt as integer, str2ipv4(i) from tmp'
time sqlite3 $t 'drop table tmp'
time sqlite3 $t 'create index ti on t(i)'Let's see how many consecutives with counts:
sqlite3 208-up-uniq-cnt.sqlite <<EOF
SELECT f, t - f as c FROM (
SELECT min(i) as f, max(i) as t
FROM (SELECT i, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY i) - i as grp FROM t WHERE cnt >= 3)
GROUP BY grp
ORDER BY i
) where c > 28 and c < 32
EOFLet's check on 66:not representative at all... e.g. several convfirmed hits are down:
grep -e '66.45.179' -e '66.45.179' 6666.45.179.215 1335305700 down no-response
66.45.179.215 1337579100 down no-response
66.45.179.215 1338765300 down no-response
66.45.179.215 1340271900 down no-response
66.45.179.215 1346813100 down no-responseFormal name: "animalia".
CIA 2010 covert communication websites 2012 Internet Census icmp_ping by
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Let's check relevancy of known hits:Output:
grep -e '208.254.40' -e '208.254.42' 208 | tee 208hits208.254.40.95 1355564700 unreachable
208.254.40.95 1355622300 unreachable
208.254.40.96 1334537100 alive, 36342
208.254.40.96 1335269700 alive, 17586
..
208.254.40.127 1355562900 alive, 35023
208.254.40.127 1355593500 alive, 59866
208.254.40.128 1334609100 unreachable
208.254.40.128 1334708100 alive from 208.254.32.214, 43358
208.254.40.128 1336596300 unreachableThe rest of 208 is mostly unreachable.
208.254.42.191 1335294900 unreachable
...
208.254.42.191 1344737700 unreachable
208.254.42.191 1345574700 Icmp Error: 0,ICMP Network Unreachable, from 63.111.123.26
208.254.42.191 1346166900 unreachable
...
208.254.42.191 1355665500 unreachable
208.254.42.192 1334625300 alive, 6672
...
208.254.42.192 1355658300 alive, 57412
208.254.42.193 1334677500 alive, 28985
208.254.42.193 1336524300 unreachable
208.254.42.193 1344447900 alive, 8934
208.254.42.193 1344613500 alive, 24037
208.254.42.193 1344806100 alive, 20410
208.254.42.193 1345162500 alive, 10177
...
208.254.42.223 1336590900 alive, 23284
...
208.254.42.223 1355555700 alive, 58841
208.254.42.224 1334607300 Icmp Type: 11,ICMP Time Exceeded, from 65.214.56.142
208.254.42.224 1334681100 Icmp Type: 11,ICMP Time Exceeded, from 65.214.56.142
208.254.42.224 1336563900 Icmp Type: 11,ICMP Time Exceeded, from 65.214.56.142
208.254.42.224 1344451500 Icmp Type: 11,ICMP Time Exceeded, from 65.214.56.138
208.254.42.224 1344566700 unreachable
208.254.42.224 1344762900 unreachablen=66
time awk '$3~/^alive,/ { print $1 }' $n | uniq -c | sed -r 's/^ +//;s/ /,/' | tee $n-up-uniq-cOK down to 45 MB, now we can work.
grep -e '66.45.179' -e '66.104.169' -e '66.104.173' -e '66.104.175' -e '66.175.106' '66-alive-uniq-c' | tee 66hitsDomain list only, no IPs and no dates. We haven't been able to extract anything of interest from this source so far.
Domain hit count when we were at 69 hits: only 9, some of which had been since reused. Likely their data collection did not cover the dates of interest.
TODO what does this Chinese forum track? New registrations? Their focus seems to be domain name speculation
Some of the threads contain domain dumps. We haven't yet seen a scrapable URL pattern, but their data goes way back and did have various hits. The forum seems to have started in 2006: club.domain.cn/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=41&page=10127
club.domain.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=241704 "【国际域名拟删除列表】2007年06月16日" is the earliest list we could find. It is an expired domain list.
Some hits:
- club.domain.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=709388 contains
alljohnny.comThe thread title is "2009.5.04". The post date 2009-04-30Breadcrumb nav: 域名论坛 > 域名增值交易区 > 国际域名专栏 (domain name forum > area for domain names increasing in value > international domais)
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Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.Figure 4. Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation.Figure 5. Web editor. You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.Video 4. OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo. Source. - Infinitely deep tables of contents:
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact






