Free online knowledge base displaced giants like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta in the public psyche.
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(Image credit: Nohat Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 ) Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Share this article 1 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Wikipedia is 25. Founded in 2001, this community contributor-driven site has convincingly usurped what were once the default general reference works of choice, like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta. Since its launch, this free resource has risen to become the world’s 7th most popular website, with over 7 million English articles, and around 7 billion monthly visitors. Wikipedia is the most successful non‑commercial, non‑social, non‑search web destination.
The first entry on Wikipedia was a computer-ritually headed "Hello, World!" and began with the rather amateurishly optimistic line “This is the new Wikipedia!” Co-founder Jimmy Wales, a former financial trader and best known as the face of Wikipedia (better known than Larry Sanger, anyway), uploaded the first Wikipedia edit. As an aside, this first page was recreated as a non-fungible token (NFT) in 2021, making $750,000 at auction.
Since we are a hardware site, it is worth remembering that Wales used one of the bulbous, All-in-One Apple iMac computers of the era to type his first Wikipedia entry. That first iMac was notable for several milestones. The translucent, candy‑colored computer was the first major product under the renewed leadership of Steve Jobs, and would pioneer USB ports and put a sizable nail in the floppy disk coffin.
Search pioneer AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago
The internet was born this week in 1969, and immediately glitched
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