ODP was founded as Gnuhoo by Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel in 1998. At the time, Skrenta and Truel were working as engineers for Sun Microsystems. Chris Tolles, who worked at Sun Microsystems as the head of marketing for network security products, also signed on in 1998 as a co-founder of Gnuhoo along with co-founders Bryn Dole and Jeremy Wenokur. Skrenta was already well known for his role in developing TASS, an ancestor of tin, the popular threaded Usenet newsreader for Unix systems. Coincidentally, the original category structure of the Gnuhoo directory was based loosely on the structure of Usenet newsgroups then in existence.
Transition
The Gnuhoo directory went live on June 5, 1998, and was renamed Newhoo after a Slashdot article was posted in which posters claimed that Gnuhoo had nothing in common with the spirit of free software for which the GNU project was known and was simply a commercial enterprise seeking to construct an alternative to Yahoo! Directory using volunteer labor.* Newhoo became ODP after it was acquired by Netscape Communications Corporation in October 1998 and the content was released under an open contentlicense. Netscape was acquired by AOL shortly thereafter, and ODP was one of the assets included in the acquisition. AOL later merged with Time-Warner.
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Open Directory Project - Help build the most comprehensive human-reviewed directory of the web.
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404ODP Reports - Regularly compiled reports on the status of the project.
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404ODP Weblog - News and links from ODP editors for the general public. Topics include ODP events and related articles of interest.
Open Directory Project Public Forum - Discussion board sponsored and managed by members of the ODP Community, for discussion of dmoz-related issues.
Meta Description: [ ODP Public Forum, sponsored by Members of the ODP Community, for discussion of ODP-related issues. ]
Public Abuse Report System - Allows non-editors to inform DMOZ meta editors about suspected cases of directory abuse.
Request Reinstatement of Editor Account - Official mechanism for requesting your account be reactivated if you did not login within the first month, did not edit for a consecutive period of four months, or accidentally removed your editor account.
Wikipedia: Open Directory Project - An article describing the history and growth of the directory and explaining its organization, maintenance, management, policies and procedures, and criticisms of it.
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