HTYP

HTYP has two major areas at present:

• A location-oriented directory, the "Here & There Yellow Pages"
• An (eventual) encyclopedia of practical knowledge, the "How-To Yellow Pages"

The "HT" also refers to The HyperTwins (one of whom is the founder of HTYP).

History

HTYP has its origins in an earlier project I put on the web starting around 1997 (before Google, before dmoz.org). The Red House Yellow Pages (archive), which I had to abandon because the time spent maintaining it was beginning to be a drain – in part because people were starting to use it, and wanted to add listings; in other words, it was killed by the beginnings of its potential success.

The wiki format, however, makes it possible for anyone to add a listing, so this should not be a problem. HTYP was re-started as a test on the HypertWiki in early 2005, and was moved to htyp.org beginning 2005-10-09 (John Lennon's birthday, by coincidence; this date was arrived at mainly because MediaWiki 1.5 had just become available) as it had became plain that the format could work, and would work better in its own framework, rather than being mingled with the other information on the HypertWiki.

Redundancy

How HTYP is different from other available resources:

• Wikipedia: HTYP is less formal and is aimed at being more practical. Content on HTYP may be opinionated and personal. You can even advertise on HTYP, at no charge.
• The Open Directory Project:
  • HTYP does not require an approval process before you can start editing.
  • HTYP's wiki format allows much more flexibility in the kinds of content which can be posted.
  • HTYP encourages articles as well as links
  • HTYP allows uploading of images and audio

Here & There

HTYP is a directory of every place known, starting at the Earth and moving both outwards and inwards.

How To

HTYP is a directory of practical knowledge, i.e. how to do anything that someone might want to know how to do.