Jimmy Wales

That was the era when it was the dot-com boom and there was a scourge for a little while of pop-up ads.

Like every website you went to had a pop-up ad.

Mostly those are blocked by browser.

Oh, yeah.

Punch the monkey.

And I mean, one of my thoughts was like, you know what?

Most people, when you first saw the internet, they're like, oh, this is amazing.

We can share knowledge around the world.

I'm like.

i bet people would like sharing knowledge around the world let's try that you know like it seems to be what this technology is for so let's do that first and uh people loved it so i remember using gopher as a kid which is a base i think it was a way to sort of surf libraries yeah it was just just before the world wide web it was a way of like digging through menus on different yeah most of it was libraries and stuff i

Yeah.

No, I remember the first, you know, I got an email from someone in Australia and I was like,

I wonder what that cost the university.

I'm like, does a computer there like dial long distance to hear?

I mean, I didn't know anything about how it worked.

And then I started to learn because I'm like, oh, this is fascinating.

Got to check it.

Yeah, those are the days, man.

It's a Nigerian prince.

He says, there's some money for me.