Free online knowledge base displaced giants like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta in the public psyche.
Fun fact: Bomis.com, the first supporter of Wikipedia, eventually became a porn site. And this started to happen in 2000.
Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors
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homes@piefed.world 2 hours ago
I am very grateful for Wikipedia, and I have donated to them several times. If you can, I suggest you do too. Wikipedia is a solid public good.