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Bomis (/ ˈ b ɒ m ɪ s /, from Bitter Old Men in Suits; rhyming with "promise"), was a dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia.
Bomis was an Internet company created in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. Bomis is best known for having supported the creation of the projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. Bomis staff in 2000. Bomis was popular for hosting entertainment-, sports- and sexual-themed sites.
Nupedia was an English-language online encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors with relevant subject matter expertise, reviewed by expert editors before publication, and licensed as free content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief.
Mar 19, 2013 · Meets Tim Schell through an online philosophy mailing list and the pair join up to found the male-oriented search engine Bomis.
Jun 30, 2019 · Bomis (/ˈbɒmɪs/, from Bitter Old Men in Suits; rhyming with promise), was a dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia.
In 1996, Wales and two partners founded Bomis, a web portal known for featuring erotic photographs. Bomis provided the initial funding for the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–2003).
Jun 27, 2013 · In 1996, when Wales still wore a shaggy beard, listened to Insane Clown Posse and quoted “This is Spinal Tap” in meetings, he co-founded Bomis, a search engine that came with a “Bomis Babe ...
