Nupedia was an online encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer experts and passed through a long, formal review process before publication. It was started by Jimmy Wales and edited by Larry Sanger, and it was financed by Wales's internet company Bomis. Progress was slow because few articles passed the multi-stage review. To speed up the work, Sanger and Wales set up a companion wiki that anyone could edit, and this project became Wikipedia, which quickly outgrew its parent. Nupedia produced only a small number of finished articles before it was closed down, and its content was later absorbed into Wikipedia.
Before and after
- 20th centuryPublication of In Search of Lost Time
- 2000Origins of Superettan
- 2nd millenniumRise of consumerism
- 6 January 2000The last Pyrenean ibex dies and is later cloned
- from 9 March 2000 to 26 September 2003Launch of Nupedia
- 10 March 2000Dot-com bubble
- 19 April 2000Creation of Windows Mobile
- 11 May 2000Construction of Tate Modern
- 26 June 2000The first draft of the human genome is announced
More in Science & technology
- 1945Discovery of promethium
- 1950Discovery of californium
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 20th century.