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History of Science & Technology Q&A (April 20, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The History of Wikipedia

The history of encyclopedia is on the web might have been very different from the way it actually turned out. I think Jimmy Wales wanted to do sort of a commercial version of that, you know, had web three and so on existed or if Tim Bernersley decided that the web should have micro-payments. But Wikipedia kind of became this kind of crowd source thing.

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