And That’s How It All Began
It’s not really that original anymore to visit Wayback Machine, type in a known website, and look what it was like several years ago, which translates to millenia in the world of Internet. However, seeing such a link on Digg or Reddit every now and then often brings a smile on my face.
This time, it’s Wikipedia from 2001, when it had a grand total of (gasp!) 6000 articles, aiming for 100.000. It’s interesting how every similar project starts out as completely useless, because its point is to be comprehensive and it can’t do that in its infancy. But, through enthusiasm of the few and viral spreading, six years from then Wikipedia has more articles than 3 biggest paper encyclopedias put together.
I was looking at Mahalo today, and though I did not find what I was looking for, I had to admit that Jason Calacanis is a clever guy. It’s like Wikipedia in its early days, only better and jumpstarted with millions of VC dollars. Perhaps it’ll never catch on, but you can’t blame him for trying, because the payout for success would be immense.
October 30th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Hey, I’m Lon Harris, the news lead for Mahalo. Wanted to come by and thank you for the great post, and also to ask what search term you looked for on our site that didn’t have a results page? Let me know and we’ll build it for you, if we can.
Thanks for the feedback!
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