
The Renewed Importance of Wikipedia
Dan Wentz
In 2001, when you needed an answer to a question, you had to visit the school/college library, find a Dewey decimal number, and pull a physical book off the shelf. That same year, Destiny’s Child topped the charts, Apple dropped a new thing called iTunes, and Shrek (the original) ruled the box office. Quietly, something else launched in the background: Wikipedia published its first article, and changed research forever.