The idea stemmed from an earlier project called Nupedia, which was a similar online encyclopaedia but with a more rigorous ...

Wikipedia was the brainchild of financial trader Jimmy Wales and philosopher Larry Sanger. In March 2000, they created Nupedia, a free online English encyclopedia with articles written by experts.

Like the internet phenoms they trumpeted, Internet company names of the last decade have been, by turns, wildly inventive, deeply troubled, breathtakingly silly, serviceable (if dull)—and, ...