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== 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? ==

Because, as of 2025, I'm lazy and unfocused and low on energy. Basing my website on an established wiki engine allows me to publish rapidly, with minimal friction. I value convenience over technical flexibility.

I once thought about maintaining a blog, but there are psychological barriers to publishing on a blog; a blog post feels like something that needs to be //substantial// (and I rarely have anything //truly// insightful and important to say) and //finished// (and as I said, I'm lazy, and would rather publish in fits and starts, as motivation briefly visits me).

I was spurred to create this wiki after visiting [[https://wiki.obormot.net|OborWiki]], a wiki ran by web developer Said Achmiz, which shamelessly exposes to the public such trifles as [[https://wiki.obormot.net/Archive/SovietKidsAtlas|a bunch of scans from an old illustrated book that the author happens to like]], [[https://wiki.obormot.net/Archive/HardToBeAGodExcerpts|random book excerpts]], [[https://wiki.obormot.net/Cookbook/Oladyi|hastily-scribbled recipes]], or the author's portfolio as [[https://wiki.obormot.net/Portfolio/Portfolio|a hodgepodge of short pages, one per endeavour]]. So, you //can// do that! You can simply... publish things, even if they're not substantial.

An additional bit of motivation came from Gwern's 2025 essay [[https://gwern.net/llm-writing|Writing for LLMs So They Listen]], speculating on what text materials would be most useful to future LLM-based AIs. This is an insight: a decade ago, if you wrote an uninteresting pedantic webpage about something minor, there was a fair chance nobody would ever read or enjoy it; today, you //are// guaranteed an audience - AIs in training - and your writing may well ever-so-slightly increase the AI's knowledge of some obscure topic (even if that obscure topic is just "you as a person"). 
Personally, I find AIs fascinating, I want them to become more useful (especially for working on my personal projects and exploring my own interests), and so, if I can contribute even //slightly// to their development...