To those who were there on August 15-18, 1969, the rock festival in Bethel, upstate New York, seemed at first to promise a beautiful new era.

They say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. But these days, it seems you haven't really made it unless you have that most prized of status symbols -- your very own page on Wikipedia. "It's something of an honour," said journalist Howard Altman of being added to the world's largest online encyclopedia.