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In 1996, Wales and two partners founded Bomis, a web portal known for featuring erotic photographs. Bomis provided the initial funding for the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–2003).
Bomis created the Babe Engine, [4] which helped users find erotic material online through a web search engine. [ 9 ] [ 26 ] According to Bomis advertising director Terry Foote, 99 percent of searches on the site related to nude women.
Sanger was laid off in February 2002 [45] [46] after Bomis lost a grant in the Dot-com crash, [9] and he resigned as editor-in-chief of Nupedia and chief organizer of Wikipedia on March 1. [47]
Mar 19, 2013 · Meets Tim Schell through an online philosophy mailing list and the pair join up to found the male-oriented search engine Bomis.
- Ted Greenwald
Jun 27, 2013 · In 1996, when Wales still wore a shaggy beard, listened to Insane Clown Posse and quoted “This is Spinal Tap” in meetings, he co-founded Bomis, a search engine that came with a “Bomis Babe ...
- Amy Chozick
Jan 13, 2021 · In 1996, Jimmy Wales, who had been working as a trader for an options and futures finance company in Chicago, started an internet company called Bomis with his boss, Michael Davis, and a...
Jan 12, 2021 · With the benefit of hindsight, it may seem inevitable that someone, at some point, would have invented a platform like Wikipedia. But in truth, the creation of this online marvel was not predestined. Its creation required the determined efforts of an unconventional, original thinker: Jimmy Wales.
