Add www-history.md, setup thanks-for-fixes.md

The `www-history.md` file has been added, in part, because we added
`archive/README.md` and wanted to capture some of the history of
how the IOCCC winners have been presented.  This file is **NOT**
a history of the IOCCC: it is more of a way to preserve some
of the history of the web site and repo.

The `thanks-for-fixes.md` started out as a `fix-thanks.md` file and
a `THANKS.md` file.  Both filenames were problematic.  This file
is **NOT** a way to thank the many people, past IOCCC winners as
just one example, who have made a positive difference to the IOCCC.
This file is **NOT** a place to document every time some winner
helps edit / fix another winner's entry, not is ti intended to be
a comprehensive list of every time someone pointed out a web site
problem or submitted a pull request to fix something.  The purpose
of this file is to acknowledge those who made improvements to the
way that IOCCC winners are presented.

thanks-for-fixes.md

@@ -1,10 +1,27 @@
-## [1984/anonymous](1984/anonymous/anonymous.c) ([README.md](1984/anonymous/README.md]))
+# Thanks for all the fixes
 
-[Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) fixed this to work
+.. and all the fish.  :-)
-under macOS. The fix was to not use implicit `int`s in the `read()` function as
+
-it once did. Instead the second arg is a `void *`.  In the `read()` function
+## Thank you honor roll
-(which actually calls `write(2)`) the `i` (which is the `void *`) has to be cast
+
-to an `int`. This solves the problem. Thank you Cody for your assistance!
+There are several people who have contributed to the above mentioned
+several thousand changes and important improvements.  We call out the
+extensive contributions of [Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson)
+who is responsible for many of the improvements.
+
+From the [IOCCC judges](https://www.ioccc.org/judges.html): Thank you **very much** [Cody Boone
+Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) for the extensive
+efforts in helping improve the IOCCC presentation of past IOCCC
+winners!
+
+## Thank you list
+
+To avoid having to change numerous "_README.md_" files to add thank you notes,
+we centralize them below.
+
+The [IOCCC judges](https://www.ioccc.org/judges.html) wish to recognize the many
+important contributions to the IOCCC presentation of past IOCCC winners.
+We are pleased to note the many contributions on a winner by winner basis.
 
 
 ## [1984/decot](1984/decot/decot.c) ([README.md](1984/decot/README.md]))

www-history.md

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+## History of the www.ioccc.org web site
+
+## In the beginning of www.ioccc.org
+
+The long history of the [official IOCCC web site](https://www.ioccc.org)
+may be viewed at the [Internet Archive Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org).
+One may view several thousand
+snapshots showing how the [IOCCC web site has
+evolved](https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/www.ioccc.org) going
+back as far as [1998 Dec 12
+www.ioccc.org](https://web.archive.org/web/19981212030016/http://www.ioccc.org/).
+
+On 2020 Dec 31, the IOCCC source tree was moved to the [IOCCC winner
+repo](https://web.archive.org/web/20210101211346/http://www.ioccc.org/)
+on [GitHub](https://github.com).  From this point on, the [official
+IOCCC web site](https://www.ioccc.org) became a [GitHub
+Pages](https://pages.github.com) web site.
+
+## 2020 Dec 28 bzip2 compressed tarball archive
+
+Furthermore, an bzip2 compressed tarballs containing the released
+IOCCC winner source code may be found under the `archive/` directory.
+These files were obtained from the Internet Archive as
+of  [2020 Dec 28](https://web.archive.org/web/20201228005211/http://www.ioccc.org/).
+See `archive/README.md` for details about these bzip2 compressed tarballs;
+
+**XXX**: Change the references to _temp-test-ioccc_ to _winners_
+when these fixes are merged.
+
+## 2022 Dec 29 repo fork
+
+On 2022 Dec 29, the [IOCCC winner
+repo](https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner), from which the [official
+IOCCC web site of 2022 Dec
+29](https://web.archive.org/web/20221231001721/https://www.ioccc.org/) was
+generated, was forked into a temporary repo where it underwent
+several thousand changes and important improvements such as:
+
+* Moving IOCCC winners into their own separate directories
+* Fixing lots and lots of typos
+* Fixing Makefiles and code to allow for nearly all winners to be compiled on modern systems
+* Reworking the Makefiles to use a consistent set of rules
+* Reworking the Makefiles to specific to the gcc and clang C compilers
+* Replacing the various hint files with a README.md markdown that is more consistent across IOCCC years
+* Setting up a system whereby authors of IOCCC entries may update their own contact information via a GitHub pull request
+* Setting up to generate the top level years.html file via a tool
+* Setting up to generate the top level winners.html file via a tool
+* etc.
+
+## 20yy mmm dd pull request
+
+On 20yy mmm ddd, the temporary repo was merged back into the [IOCCC winner
+repo](https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner) resulting in substantial improvements
+to the [official IOCCC web site](https://www.ioccc.org).
+
+**XXX**: Fill in the date when the pull request happens including perhaps,
+size of the pull request and/or number of changes that went into the pull request.