Comments | schnee: 10 years

schnee

10 years

Jan 15, 2011 13:23

Happy anniversary to Wikipedia - the project is ten years old as of today. Here's a wiki dedicated to this anniversary; there's lots of events all over the globe, just in case you're still looking for something to do today. *s*

For those curious, here's a (read-only) copy of Wikipedia from the 20th of December 2001, too. And (just because I like ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

steele_the_wolf January 18 2011, 03:15:25 UTC

What an excellent resource for the world. Wikipedia is definitely one of the best examples of the Internet working for the good of human kind. It sure has come a long way since it first came out.

schnee January 18 2011, 12:04:07 UTC

It has, hasn't it? Alas, it's also lost a certain innocence and playfulness that it used to have; the earliest known revision of "Africa", for instance, contains a sole external link, described thusly: "An Irish anarchist in Africa provides a readable and compelling, but biased, introduction to today's western Africa". Can you imagine something like that lasting more than five seconds in today's Wikipedia? I can't ( ... )

steele_the_wolf January 20 2011, 05:39:04 UTC

Also very true. I was thinking about that recently with my reading of the latest Intel and AMD chips and how they've just gobbled up integrated graphics and put them on the same core with amazing performance. Pretty soon every PC is going to have the same capability as every console ( ... )

schnee January 20 2011, 10:44:41 UTC

Aye, very good point. Indeed, I agree that the fact that the complexity (and complicatedness) of things that appear easy on the outside is hidden from people contributes to their being unaware just how amazing it actually really is; but I also think that people are looking at things in terms of the availability of something being the default, assuming that it's the situations where that thing is not available that are the remarkable ones, rather than the ones where it is ( ... )

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steele_the_wolf January 20 2011, 07:28:40 UTC

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/18/the-state-of-wikipedia-video-infographic/

schnee January 20 2011, 10:50:25 UTC

Oh, very interesting video - rather visually busy, but neat. And it was interesting to actually hear Jimbo's voice; I don't think I have before.

Heh, Nupedia "wasn't quite taking off", though? That deserves an Understatement Of The Year™ award. ^_~