Officially launched on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia has ballooned into a massive online encyclopedia with millions of free articles in dozens of languages editable by anyone. The resulting open source experiment has attracted geeks from all over the world to fill in the history of obscure kings and random Star Wars trivia, giving far more attention to the latter. Wikipedia allows geeks to share their knowledge, no matter what topic, and the only editors are other geeks - people who share the same passion. If you want to write 2,000 words about Númenor, then be Wikipedia’s guest. Just don’t expect to launch your career in academia.
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Geek-Out Moment: Wikipedia lets geeks share knowledge
January 5th, 2008
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[...] has been a great tool for geeks to finally write down all the crap we used to have to remember. And now we can share that [...]
[...] In the prehistoric days, kids looked forward to rare computer class where they learned typing on Apple IIs with less processing power than my four year old cell phone. The highlight of these lessons was the chance to play Oregon Trail, the classic of educational gaming. Oregon Trail, first introduced in 1971, taught kids about the hardship and challenges of traversing the west, watching your family die off and hunting pixilated buffalo and bunnies. It was the most fun learning in school until Wikipedia. [...]
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