Bomis was a Internet company created in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Mich

ael Davis. Bomis is best known for have supported the creation of the projects N
upedia and Wikipedia.
Bomis staff in 2000
Bomis was popular for hosting entertainment, sports and adult sites. When Nupedi
a started, Larry Sanger was hired to be the editor-in-chief for the project. But
Nupedia resulted too slow to grow and too expensive to maintain, and Wikipedia
started as a side project to help Nupedia. Finally Wikipedia became more popular
than Nupedia and it was transferred to a foundation in 2003. Bomis was shut dow
n in 2006.
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