Wikipedia Has The Weirdest Origin Story

We've all used WIkipedia before. But do you know how they got started? Well Wikipedia's origin story is actually pretty gross. This is a piece of Internet History you've probably never heard of!
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wowee

[@Wither5000]

Hello

[@progCan]

duh it actually

[@Zudexa]

All I can think about now is jimmy neutron’s dad calling him jimbo because of that intro info lol

[@Nellooo]

LOL I completely forgot about that. Now that's all I can think of too

[@BallisticDamages]

My day was bad, but now it's Bomis

[@pittsburghbob69]

Hmm, I thought Aaron Swartz created Wikipedia.
***Edit; Here is a “copy and paste” from a Rolling Stone article I found. He created something similar and was one of the earliest and most frequent Wikipedia users.
He immersed himself in numerous websites as a kid, among them one called the Info Network, a user-generated encyclopedia he built in 1999, when he was 12 years old. “It was basically Wikipedia, except long before Wikipedia had launched,”
Aaron Swartz (User:AaronSw) was not just any Wikipedian. He was one of the longest running contributors, first joining Wikipedia in August 2003 and making his last edit just the day before he died. Using a tool for the analysis of Wikipedia user accounts, I found the complete list of articles he created-a total of 199, including some fairly important ones.

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[@Nellooo]

Thank you so much!! :D

[@OskarTinni]

What an incredible video! Keep up the amazing work!

[@Nellooo]

Thank you so much!! :D

[@johngalbreath9394]

My favorite part was when Jimbo said "it's Bomis time" and started bomising it up

[@Nellooo]

He really do be bomising all over the place

[@cadenious9569]

This video is very bomis

[@Nellooo]

Thank you! I hope your day is very bomis

[@medea27]

The early internet was such a weird & wonderful place that I would have been disappointed if Wikipedia _didn't_ have a crazy origin story! I always throw them a few bucks when they have their fundraising drives because they perform such a crucial function... collecting, sorting & most importantly _validating_ info that becomes the key reference & source for anyone with an internet connection. Great video 👍

[@dittocto]

Why _didn't_ in italic ?

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Why **wouldn't** didn't in italic?

[@chunkymilk]

you pay for it? lol

[@illegalsmirf]

Why pay them? They are funded by big tech, big corporations and the U.S. intelligence agencies?

[@dm1972]

You're really good at making these videos buddy

[@Nellooo]

I appreciate that!

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this video is... *car-tastic!*

[@Wither5000]

Nice

[@wabbajedda]

Remember, if you arnt having fun. It isint Bomis.

[@Nellooo]

Well said :)

[@dittocto]

Thanks so much your video are in high quality.

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Yo Nello when are you gonna make the video of my idea?

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red women are actually fire though

[@kneau]

This video has me asking, who is Mara Parker?

[@mobsterlord9021]

Well edited video my good sir deserves more views

[@Nellooo]

Much appreciated!

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First

[@dittocto]

No one stil knows who is BrownHairedGirl (BHG) on Wikipedia.

[@AYOUBrse]

finally a new video

[@Nellooo]

:D

[@rCiuuuu69]

I'm feeling very bomis 😁

[@HowsDaJello]

Nice job man

[@Nellooo]

Thanks!

[@nicolaskeroack7860]

7:47 lmao wtf

[@grantrick1]

I had fun watching this video. it must be bomis.

[@SeriWTR]

there is a channel copying you: his name is therealberk, from thumbnails to videos, getting thousands of views.

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Trauma

[@flesh_crawler07]

weirdly entertaining +1

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Bomis approves of this video.

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3rd! Here before it blows up.
Edit, everyone reply “:D”

[@Nellooo]

:D

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:D

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:D

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THIS IS BOMIS

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5:13 4:43 6:06

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Bomis

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Bomis

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Bomis

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early gang wya? :D

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Meee

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love this lol

[@RealPred]

Early gang let’s goo

[@Nellooo]

Wooooooooooo!

[@La0Dolce0Vita]

What happened to Newpedia sounds like it’s way 10 times better than Wikipedia. That’s your own opinion about that site sucks. Looks like it’s doing a lot better of checking if everything’s actual and historical they actually did background checks of all of the writers and scholars setting in documentation than what they’re doing today. Now today not doing any kind of follow up if there are truthful facts and figures and if that is historical or not or if they had someone else’s opinion.

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[@Saki-uf6mb]

Only 390 views!? I’m lucky

[@Nellooo]

Thanks for watching :D

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[@eprimchad2576]

boys will be boys am i right fellas? 😎

[@Nellooo]

U right, u right

[@theRPGmaster]

Yes, and nice pic bro

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First