[tor-commits] r24506: {website} copy the inception paragraph from torusers over to overview, (website/trunk/about/en)

Andrew Lewman andrew at torproject.org
Wed Mar 30 00:19:31 UTC 2011


Author: phobos
Date: 2011-03-30 00:19:31 +0000 (Wed, 30 Mar 2011)
New Revision: 24506

Modified:
   website/trunk/about/en/overview.wml
Log:
copy the inception paragraph from torusers over to overview, since
clearly paranoids don't read anything but what they want to read.


Modified: website/trunk/about/en/overview.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/about/en/overview.wml	2011-03-29 21:18:00 UTC (rev 24505)
+++ website/trunk/about/en/overview.wml	2011-03-30 00:19:31 UTC (rev 24506)
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
       <h3>Topics</h3>
       <ul>
         <li><a href="<page about/overview>#overview">Overview</a></li>
+        <li><a href="<page about/overview>#inception">Inception</a></li>
         <li><a href="<page about/overview>#whyweneedtor">Why we need Tor</a></li>
         <li><a href="<page about/overview>#thesolution">The Solution</a></li>
         <li><a href="<page about/overview>#hiddenservices">Hidden services</a></li>
@@ -26,6 +27,19 @@
     <!-- END SIDEBAR -->
     
     <hr>
+
+    <a name="inception"></a>
+    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#inception">Inception</a></h3>
+
+    <p>
+    Tor was originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a
+    third-generation <a href="http://www.onion-router.net/">onion routing
+    project of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory</a>.  It was originally
+    developed with the U.S. Navy in mind, for the primary purpose of
+    protecting government communications.  Today, it is used every day
+    for a wide variety of purposes by normal people, the military,
+    journalists, law enforcement officers, activists, and many
+    others. </p>
     
     <p>
     Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to



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