How 9/11 Turned A New Site Called Wikipedia Into History’s Crowdsourced Front Page

Alex Pasternack, Fast Company
Sat, 09/11/2021 - 1:00am

The volunteers who documented the attacks on the fledgling site were also laying a foundation for its future. A few days after September 11, 2001, as lawmakers were approving a declaration to use military force and people downtown were picking through the rubble, someone in Brooklyn stared into their computer screen at the history they and some strangers were making.Read Full Story

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