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Before Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales ran an adult site

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Because nothing sets you up to build humanity's most comprehensive repository of free knowledge quite like digital smut. Before launching Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales co-founded Bomis, a web portal that largely generated its profits through premium adult entertainment rings. Those early internet hustles funded the server costs for the very platform you now use to confidently cheat on your bar trivia.

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