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Late 1999[edit]

  • Jimmy Wales, an Internet entrepreneur and founder of the dot-com company Bomis, wants to start an open-source, collaborative encyclopedia.[1]

2000[edit]

January 2000[edit]

  • Wales describes his idea to his Internet acquiantance, philosopher Larry Sanger. He asks Sanger to lead the project; Sanger agrees and is employed by Bomis.