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Wikipedia's Main Page as it appeared on 20 December 2001. Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2]
Enciclopedia Libre was created in February 2002 as a fork of the Spanish-language Wikipedia, by a group of contributors to the Spanish Wikipedia, who left because of fears of censorship and the possibility of the placement of advertising on Wikipedia.
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List of other free encyclopedias, from Enciclopedia Libre. The concept of a free encyclopedia began with the Interpedia proposal on Usenet in 1993, which outlined an Internet-based online encyclopedia to which anyone could submit content that would be freely accessible.
Oct 29, 2009 · Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), America’s 31st president, took office in 1929, the year the U.S. stock market crashed, plunging the country into the Great Depression. ... At the start of World War I ...
Aug 12, 2016 · The domains wikipedia.com (later redirecting to wikipedia.org) and wikipedia.org were registered on January 12, 2001, [25] and January 13, 2001, [26] respectively, and Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 [18] as a single English-language edition at www.wikipedia.com, [27] and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. [21]
First edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published 1768–71. The shortcomings of the Encyclopédie were obvious. The essential ingredients of an encyclopaedia, the entries on every conceivable subject, had been sacrificed to make place for lengthy polemics on the controversial topics of the day.
About the 10th or 11th century a new type of encyclopaedia began to emerge, probably stimulated by the growing number of language dictionaries that, starting well before printing was used, grew ever more numerous once they could be produced.
