Wikipedia was first edited twenty five years ago , on 15 January 2001. Happy 25th birthday! The site was started by some folk at a company called Bomis, where worked in 2000 and 2001. I blogged a bunch of stories from back then a couple of years ago, if you’d like to read more about what it was like.

A dozen people pose for a photo in a company’s conference room.
The employees of Bomis in August 2000. (Except for me—I took the photo.)
Standing, L–R: Tim Shell, Christine (Rohan) and Jimmy Wales, Terry (Foote) O’Connor, Jarod Pappas-Kelly, Liz Campeau, Rita Sanger (this photo was from before they married, but I don’t remember her maiden name), Jason Richey, Toan Vo, and Andrew McCague.
Seated, L–R: Jeremy Rosenfeld, Larry Sanger.