Working Repository

Quack.com

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Document intake and curation workspace for the Quack.com archive project. New material lands in incoming/, gets processed here, and then moves into historic/ folders organized by type.

Intake Folder incoming/
Raw finds arrive here before classification and cleanup.
Historic Folder historic/
Processed material is preserved here by type.
Current State Ready for first document drops
The basic repository structure now matches the intended workflow.

Repository Workflow

01 Incoming documents

Drop unsorted captures, scans, PDFs, screenshots, and notes into the intake folder first so nothing gets lost while we are still identifying what it is.

Folder public/quack/incoming/
Use staging and first-pass processing

02 Process and classify

As each document is understood, we extract dates, context, and summaries, then decide which historic lane it belongs in.

Core tasks identify, date, summarize, categorize
Result durable archive-ready material

03 Historic archive

Settled material moves into typed folders that can later support public exhibits, timelines, and demo reconstructions.

Folder public/quack/historic/
Types memories, demos, artifacts, code

Historic Lanes

Memories

Interviews, recollections, milestone notes, and narrative fragments that preserve the human story around the company.

Folder public/quack/historic/memories/

Demos

Reconstructed experiences, audio flows, and presentation material that help the original product feel tangible again.

Folder public/quack/historic/demos/

Artifacts

Primary-source documents such as screenshots, scans, press coverage, diagrams, and photos.

Folder public/quack/historic/artifacts/

Code

Recovered source, technical notes, dependency clues, and restoration experiments needed for preservation or replay.

Folder public/quack/historic/code/

Source Anchors In This Repo

Media review

Curated Quack.com and AOL-era source list with notes about what has already been archived locally and what still needs capture.

2021 alumni profile

Contains a Quack.com team photo caption and retrospective sale/product framing that help seed the historic timeline.

Entrepreneurship profile

Provides a concise retrospective summary describing Quack.com as a pioneering interactive voice assistant acquired in 2000.

Shared Intake Method

Cross-project artifact analysis

Quack and Kinitos / NeoEdge now share the same first-pass method for analyzing incoming historical material so provenance, dates, and archive-lane decisions stay consistent.

Playbook public/data/shared/incoming-artifact-analysis-playbook.md
Template public/data/shared/incoming-artifact-analysis-template.md

Working Layout

The repository now matches the intended intake-to-history flow.

public/quack/ |- index.html |- README.md |- incoming/ `- historic/ |- memories/ |- demos/ |- artifacts/ `- code/
Next Repository Pass
  1. Start dropping raw captures into incoming/.
  2. Create the first classified summaries as material moves into historic/.
  3. Add dedicated exhibit pages once a historic lane has enough material to tell a coherent story.