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Lawrence Mark Sanger (/ ˈ s æ ŋ ər /; born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who was the editor-in-chief of Nupedia, an online encyclopedia, and co-founded its successor Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales.
While moderating an online discussion group devoted to the philosophy of Objectivism in the early 1990s, Wales had encountered Larry Sanger, a skeptic of the philosophy. The two had engaged in detailed debate on the subject on Wales' list and then on Sanger's, eventually meeting offline to continue the debate and becoming friends. [9]
Mar 27, 2024 · American-British internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has helped build communities of knowledge.
Apr 28, 2024 · Frustrated by the slow progress of this project, Wales and Nupedia’s editor in chief, Larry Sanger, in 2001 turned to a new technology, a type of software called wiki, to create Wikipedia, a companion encyclopaedia site that anyone could contribute to and edit. Sanger and Wales parted company in 2002, but they continued to dispute who first ...
Sanger went on to earn a masters and PhD from Ohio State University, becoming a philosophy professor there in 1995. But the draw of the net was strong. In 2000, he left academia to join entrepreneur Jimmy Wales‘ startup Bomis as editor-in-chief of Nupedia – aspiring to be the world‘s first free online encyclopedia written and edited ...
Mar 19, 2013 · Founding Wikipedia in 2001 (along with Larry Sanger, by most accounts other than Wales’), Wales understood the web’s egalitarian underpinning and the open source method’s ability to spur ...
Sep 1, 2006 · Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger knew all this when they began an online encyclopedia in 1999. Now, just seven years later, everyone knows different.
