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Bomis ( / ˈbɒmɪs /, from Bitter Old Men in Suits; [14] rhyming with "promise"), [15] was a dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. [9] . It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis.
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.
Chicago Options Associates and Bomis. The staff of Wales' Internet company Bomis photographed in summer 2000. Wales is third from the left in the back row, with Christine Rohan. In 1994, Wales took a job with Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm in Chicago, Illinois.
Wales, who relocated with Rohan to St. Petersburg, Fla., for cheap real estate, would hand deliver a check from Bomis to keep Wikipedia’s Tampa servers running.
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.
It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia operated from October 1999 [1] [2] until September 2003. It is best known today as the predecessor of Wikipedia.
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