Wikipedia Is 15 Years Old—Here Are Six Things You Probably Never Knew About The Site
You know Wikipedia well. You probably use it regularly. But you’ve definitely never heard some of these strange Wikipedia facts. Starting with its origin in 1768 , the Encyclopaedia Britannica wastheflagship consultation resource , the ultimate catalog of all human noesis . For over 200 years , that standard did n’t exchange . Then , in 2001 , Wikipedia add up along . When Wikipedia launched on January 15 , 2001 , there was little reason to suspect that a crowdsourced , paperless encyclopedia could become the most used and most comprehensive encyclopedia the world had ever seen ....