Friday, January 14, 2011

Wikipedia Celebrates 10 Years of Crowd-Sourced Smarts

Wikipedia Celebrates 10 Years of Crowd-Sourced Smarts: "Let's take a journey to a distant time where knowledge was hard to come by: the year 2000.

Back then, if you wanted to find out the gross domestic product of Belarus or the wingspan of a B-10 bomber, your best bet was to head to a library and dig out a specialist book. Should you need quick access to a more arcane piece of trivia -- a treatise on the art of chicken hypnosis, for example -- well, you'd probably just have to stay ignorant."

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