Because those who forget the past should have written it down:

• December 1988: WIST is born as a hardcopy Word document, to be distributed as a Christmas gift to friends.
• June 1999:WIST goes on-line with about 1,600 quotations.
• November 2000: WIST is "upgraded" to FrontPage, with about 3,600 quotations.
• June 2001: The free WIST-a-Day list begins on Topica.
• February 2002: WIST gets its own domain! Minor formatting changes. New edition has about 4,300 quotations.
• April 2002: The free WIST-a-Day list moves onto the Hill-Kleerup.org server.
• June 2003: WIST is moved onto a Movable Type platform.
• August 2003: WIST on MT is made "live" on the wist.info site.
• July 2007: WIST v2 is launched, completely reorganized to use MT on a per-entry basis.

(Last updated 25-Jul-07)