The article focuses on Jimmy Wales, who used reader contribution to establish Wikipedia.org, an online encyclopedia with nearly 10 times the amount of entries in the "Encyclopedia Britannica." Users are invited to edit and correct the articles on the website, creating a source of public ...
Diocletian'screation of the Tetrarchy, the rule of four, was his response to the size of the empire. He believed it was too vast for one Emperor to rule the whole Roman world, particular with so many new threats (from barbarians) along the length and breadth of its borders. When was t...
Wikipedia was created in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger as a twenty-first century attempt to materialize the modern dream of cataloguing the entirety of human knowledge (Reagle Jr 2010; Tkacz 2015). As Wikipedia's multilingual policies acknowledge (Wikipedia 2024a), this comprehensive approa...
There is this old people’s home up the road from me and when I pass it I look in the window and I just think I couldn’t do it. The patients, people, and none of them would be users, I mean what would they do with people like me; how would we get treated? Older junkies ...
Although it can certainly be argued that constraints can be both created and discovered, like opportunities (Davidsson Citation2021; Dimov Citation2011; Ramoglou Citation2021), in this paper we take a slightly different route of argumentation to claim that intellectual constraints are inherent properti...
(photo credit: Jamesfranklingresham/Wikipedia) Three weeks short of 17, orphanedPeter Fleischmannescaped Nazi Germany with the famed Kindertransport, only to be confined by barbed wire in Britain. Fleischmann, an aspiring artist, was one of 73,500refugees from Nazi Germanyliving in Britain when the...
who chipped in additional funds. With this financing Facebook was valued at over $500 million, five times the amount when Accel first invested. Greylock, founded in 1965, traces its roots to founders Bill Elfers and Dan Gregory, who both worked at the country's first institutional venture ca...
a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualizationAbraham Harold Maslow (/ˈmæzloʊ/; April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, . https...
Although NoFap is the most popular Reddit forum on the topic of “porn addiction and compulsive sexual behavior recovery” (r/NoFap, 2023), anti-pornography discussions on Reddit predate the NoFap community. The pornfree subreddit (320,000 members; r/pornfree, 2023) was created in 2008, ...
History of the Piano: Where was the Piano Invented & Who Invented the Piano First? – 1700 When was the piano created and why was the piano invented? About three hundred years ago, toward the end of the Renaissance, there was a harpsichord maker in Italy named Bartolomeo Cristofori. He wa...