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Bomis (/ ˈ b ɒ m ɪ s /, from Bitter Old Men in Suits; rhyming with "promise"), was a dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and 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.
Nupedia was an English-language online encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors with relevant subject matter expertise, reviewed by expert editors before publication, and licensed as free content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief.
Mar 27, 2024 · During the dotcom boom in 1996, Wales saw potential in harnessing the internet to make information free and accessible globally. Teaming up with friends Tim Shell and Michael Davis, the young entrepreneurs founded web portal company Bomis in San Diego.
Sanger was laid off in February 2002 after Bomis lost a grant in the Dot-com crash, and he resigned as editor-in-chief of Nupedia and chief organizer of Wikipedia on March 1.
Jan 13, 2021 · In 1996, Jimmy Wales, who had been working as a trader for an options and futures finance company in Chicago, started an internet company called Bomis with his boss, Michael Davis, and a...
Mar 19, 2013 · Meets Tim Schell through an online philosophy mailing list and the pair join up to found the male-oriented search engine Bomis.
