It is a strange sort of history that starts in 1885 and then has a gap between 1904 and 2009.
31.64.135.132 (talk) 12:41, 27 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
- It would be strange in a traditional book, but it's perfectly normal for a user-generated, massively multiauthor reference work such as Wikipedia. It simply means that the only people who have brought any info to this article so far were ones who happened to know about a certain era in the company's history, although not all the other eras. So they added what they could, and cited as a ref the book(s) or article(s) where they'd read it. And they left the rest of the content development for another time or another user. Wikipedia is like a forest after a volcanic eruption: it starts to fill in with trees gradually, and it takes decades to fill out substantially. The lava-scorched landscape in this analogy corresponds to the dearth of any resource that could compare with Wikipedia in the pre-Web era. Cheers, — ¾-10 01:09, 28 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
