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- Wales was interested in computer science, experimenting with source code on the Internet and improving his skill at computer programming. In his spare time after work at Chicago Options Associates, Wales constructed his own web browser.
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Bomis created the Babe Engine, which helped users find erotic material online through a web search engine. [9] [26] According to Bomis advertising director Terry Foote, 99 percent of searches on the site related to nude women.
In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a web portal featuring user-generated webrings and, for a time, erotic photographs. Wales described it as a "guy-oriented search engine" with a market similar to that of Maxim magazine; the Bomis venture did not ultimately turn out to be successful.
Meets Tim Schell through an online philosophy mailing list and the pair join up to found the male-oriented search engine Bomis.
It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia operated from October 1999 until September 2003. It is best known today as the predecessor of Wikipedia.
Bomis was an Internet company created in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. Bomis is best known for having supported the creation of the projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. Bomis staff in 2000. Bomis was popular for hosting entertainment-, sports- and sexual-themed sites.
Aug 6, 2023 · Bomis. Along with two other men, Tim Shell and Michael Davis, Jimmy started a company called Bomis in 1996. Bomis was an internet company that focused on creating free-content, online-encyclopedia projects driven by the facts like Nupedia and Wikipedia. By 2007, the company had transferred its resources to the Wikimedia foundation and shut down.
May 12, 2016 · Wales initially founded Nupedia, the predecessor to Wikipedia, in 1999 with profits he made on Bomis, an online search engine he co-founded in 1996.
