Wikipedia Techno terminology origins

A common misconception is that the use of the word 'techno' has historically described a narrow sub-genre of dance music. Not until roughly 1993 was the sound thoroughly defined in it's modern form, yet the term techno was used for nearly a decade before.
The scene whose music was once known as 'minimalist techno', eventually shrugged off the minimalist part and fully inherited the term 'techno' for itself.
For many years 'techno' was used to describe a much wider generalization of dance music, and is not "commonly confused" in the manor described in Wikipedia.
In-fact the common and fairly modern confusion is that 'trance techno', 'jungle techno', 'minimal techno' etc did not once share the umbrella genre name of techno.
This continued re-writing of history comes from the now fractured and opposing scenes trying adamantly to differentiate themselves in what was once a reasonably unified community of electronic music enthusiasts.
Claims like the above are furiously denied by passion and elitism rather than historical correctness. And to suggest 'hardcore' was not once a direct subgenre of techno is completely ridiculous.