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In 2005, Wales described himself simply as the founder of Wikipedia; [232] however, according to Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press, "Sanger has long been cited as a co-founder." [ 227 ] Sanger and Wales were referred to as co-founders in various press releases, interviews, and news reports from 2001 [ 236 ] and 2002. [ 237 ]
There are two co-founders of Wikipedia: Larry Sanger (born 1968), American internet project developer Jimmy Wales (born 1966), American-British internet entrepreneur
The history of Wikipedia is more than the story of the development of its external face. There is also the story of the development of its processes and the people who contributed to that development. This is the part of the history that is likely to be of interest only to editors.
[W 10] Wales then announced that Wikipedia would not display advertisements, and changed Wikipedia's domain from wikipedia.com to wikipedia.org. [27] [W 11] After an early period of exponential growth, [28] the growth rate of the English Wikipedia in terms of the numbers of new articles and of editors, appears to have peaked around early 2007. [29]
Joseph Priestley's A New Chart of History, 1765. The bronze timeline "Fifteen meters of History" with background information board, Örebro, Sweden. A timeline is a list of events displayed in chronological order. [1] It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events.
He is the founder and chairman of several companies, including BEN, Cascade Investment, TerraPower, Gates Ventures, and Breakthrough Energy. He has donated to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reported to be the world's largest private charity .
Linus Benedict Torvalds (/ ˈ l iː n ə s ˈ t ɔːr v ɔː l d z / ⓘ LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz, [2] Finland Swedish: [ˈliːnʉs ˈtuːrvɑlds] ⓘ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel.
Wozniak's 1968 Homestead High School yearbook photo. Stephen Gary Wozniak was born on August 11, 1950, in San Jose, California. [5]: 18 [11] [12]: 13 [13]: 27 His mother, Margaret Louise Wozniak (née Kern) (1923–2014), was from Washington state, [14] and his father, Francis Jacob "Jerry" Wozniak (1925–1994) of Michigan, [5]: 18 was an engineer for the Lockheed Corporation.