Jimmy Wales
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6,110 appearances
12 recordings
11 series
first heard Jun 2023
last heard 21 Jun
Jimmy Wales’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can't build a reputation and all of that without that.
And it was the only reason it was like that is because the guy who is making it was just making a little thing.
Like it was like maybe a group of three people could use it.
Right.
Then it wasn't thinking about big public thing.
And so.
Quickly, I added passwords.
It was a real from scratch process.
And then it was just a couple of years, I'm not sure exactly, when we scrapped that software entirely.
And just like one of our volunteers was actually a biology PhD student at the time, but he programmed the first database driven.
I mean, before that, all the articles were stored in text files on the server.
It was very rudimentary, but it allowed us to get started.
And that was kind of the important thing is just getting started and learning as we went.
Yeah, I mean, it's hard to say.
I always say I'm a pathological optimist, so I never think of things as walls.
I'm just like, oh, we've got to do something here and we've got to do that.
But some of the kinds of challenges, my mind is immediately drawn to a little bit of a later period because once we got started, the traffic to the site was doubling every three to four months.
the nature of the mathematics of doubling is the first two or three, it's like, oh, wow, this is interesting.
And then it gets hairy because going from one server to two, fine, two to four, oh, now it's eight, 16, 32, like, oh my goodness.
And so there was a real challenge to scramble.
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