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January 16, 2014 03:17 am GMT

Wikipedia Looked Pretty Much the Same 13 Years Ago

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Wikipedia, everyone's favorite community-edited encyclopedia, turned 13 years old today. The website has now entered that infamous stage of adolescence where it thinks it knows everything about everything. In this case, though, it actually might.

The company launched on Jan. 15, 2001, now known to some as Wikipedia Day. The site revolutionized both the way college students write papers and how you can decipher that weird skin thing you found on your arm

See also: The 10 Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia

Today in 2001, Wikipedia was launched. It now has over 30m pages and changed the lives of students forever! pic.twitter.com/YrNzZEa1TY

— Historical Pics (@HistoricalPics) January 15, 2014 Read more...

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