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A website was created by Justin Paulson from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1994 to provide information on the conflict in the Chiapas region between the Mexican government and the Zapatista forces primarily in English [183] but later started posting information in Spanish at www.ezln.org. [184] The Zapatistas usage of the ...
A year later, a second site was founded at INRIA (a French national computer research lab) with support from the European Commission; and in 1996, a third continental site was created in Japan at Keio University. W3C comprised various companies that were willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web.
The first subdomain created for a non-English Wikipedia was deutsche.wikipedia.com (created on Friday 16 March 2001, 01:38 UTC), [47] followed after a few hours by catalan.wikipedia.com (at 13:07 UTC). [48] The Japanese Wikipedia, started as nihongo.wikipedia.com, was created around that period, [49] [50] and initially used only Romanized Japanese.
It was created by Jimmy Wales on 4 December 2003 as an extension of the decision-making power he had formerly held as owner of the site. [28] [29] When it was founded, the committee consisted of 12 arbitrators divided into three groups of four members each. [28] [30]
Bolt.com was started as the first social networking and video website. [citation needed] 1997 Launch, Milestone Social networking website SixDegrees.com is created. [14] 1998 Launch Open Diary launches the first social blogging network, inventing the reader comment and friends-only content. [15] 1997 Launch AOL Instant Messenger is released ...
According to a 2003 article from The Harvard Crimson, Zuckerberg created the site in less than a week and documented the process in a blog. He hacked into the online intranets of Harvard Houses to obtain photos, developing algorithms and codes along the way. He referred to his hacking as "child's play."
These other Wikimedia projects include Wiktionary, a dictionary project launched in December 2002, [W 124] Wikiquote, a collection of quotations created a week after Wikimedia launched, [311] Wikibooks, a collection of collaboratively written free textbooks and annotated texts, [W 125] Wikimedia Commons, a site devoted to free-knowledge ...
In January 2005, the wiki wikiHow was created as a component of the how-to website eHow. In April 2006, its creators sold off eHow and focused full-time on wikiHow, which was launched at its own domain. [42] Both sites receive tens of millions of hits a month. In April 2006, the company Internet Brands bought the sites WikiTravel and World66. [43]