Having a big line of encyclopedias on your shelf would seem like a huge waste of space these days. But it used to be a thing.
Happy 25th birthday to WIKIPEDIA! The first Wikipedia post was on January 15th, 2001, two days after they registered the domain.
The first entry in their database was posted on January 15th at 2:27 P.M. Eastern. All it said was, “This is the new WikiPedia!” (Co-founder Jimmy Wales says the first post may have actually been “Hello, World!”, but it got deleted.)
