Or, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

So I was doing my regular read of InfoDesign, and came across Keith Instone’s Reaction to NextD, which points to this PDF by GK VanPatter, IA’s Unidentical Twins (Revisited), which is an expansion of a recent comment to Peter Morville post on Information Architecture 3.0 from last fall.

The issue?

While the Information Architecture community of today is notorious for having a short, inwardly focused, airbrushed historical memory, it is well known that contemporary Information Architecture practice and the Information Architecture community began years before the dot-com era arrived (as did the Experience Design community).

Yep. And that’s when all the trouble began. You see, all of this is really Richard Saul Wurman’s fault, since he’s the one who chose the term “information architecture” when he really meant information design. Really.