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-Why the address Nepo.pl? NEPO was the name of an online bookstore at which my father worked for many years. He eventually ended up acquiring the bookstore and converting it to an antique book store, finally shutting down his operations before his death in 2017. I ended up inheriting the domain, and, since it lied unused for so many years, I eventually decided to use it for my personal website.
+== History of the nepo.pl domain ==
+NEPO.PL was the name of an online bookstore, the self-styled "first Polish online book store". According to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20070205130156/http://www.nepo.home.pl/info.html|the nepo.pl website]], it was established in 1990 and began selling online in 1994 (although [[https://web.archive.org/web/20010302042212/http://www.nepo.pl/|
+the earliest Internet Archive snapshots]] seem to be from 2001).
+My father, the late Jacek Dobrzyniecki, worked at the bookstore for many years. He eventually ended up acquiring the bookstore -- I think it was sometime between 2005-2006, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20060203211043/http://www.nepo.home.pl/info.html|judging from when his name starts appearing as owner on the website.]] In 2007, he started [[https://web.archive.org/web/20071029191431/https://antykwariat.nepo.pl/|an used books store using the nepo.pl branding]], and eventually, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20091001000000*/http://www.nepo.pl|sometime in late 2009]], shuttered the main nepo.pl store entirely, redirecting its address to the used books store.
+Eventually, he decided to shut down the bookstore entirely, soon before his death in 2017.
+I ended up inheriting the domain, and, since it lied unused for so many years, I eventually decided to use it for my personal website.
 == Why a wiki? ==