Why It Mattered
WTH2005 belongs in the badge compendium precisely because it marks the before-state: badges were identity and logistics artifacts, not yet universal programmable camp platforms.
What The Hack 2005 · Netherlands · 2005
What The Hack 2005 Badge
Simple pre-electronic Dutch camp badge
A record for What The Hack 2005's simple camp identity-badge era, before the Dutch camp badge became an expected open-hardware device.
EventWhat The Hack 2005
SeriesDutch Hacker Camps
LocationLiempde
CountryNetherlands
People
Attribution Gap
No public individual author, designer, firmware, or team credits have been seeded for this badge yet. Add named credits only when a primary badge-team page, repository, talk, or other source identifies the people or team behind the work.
Hardware
No public source currently supports a detailed electronic badge specification for WTH2005.
Software & Apps
No badge software is currently documented for this entry.
Lore
The WHY2025 history page names What The Hack 2005 alongside HAL2001 as an earlier Dutch camp with very simple badges or no comparable electronic badge tradition.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
Operational history
Issues & Camp Impact
historical scope
note
Public badge-history sources name What The Hack 2005 as part of the earlier simple/none badge era, before the later Dutch open-hardware badge expectation.
The page keeps WTH2005 visible in the Dutch lineage without falsely presenting it as a firmware or app-store badge.
- Confidence
- public history page and event archive
- Status
- needs primary artifact recovery
- Timeframe
- retrospective
- Source note
- WHYcast history episode 41 and the official event archive.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No What The Hack 2005 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The Netherlands record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and early Dutch hacker-camp identity-artifact source trail.