Jimmy Wales

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Conversations · Jimmy Wales says it is possible to have a collaborative, trusting world online · 27 May 2026 podcast

I was born in 1966, and she bought them when I was a little baby.

So it was like a 1967 edition later on.

people landed on the moon so there was an update to the article about the moon so they would send out the annual volume and you know it's like maybe the 1973 volume and they would have these stickers and they would say um you know like oh and you would take the sticker and you'd go look under m and open moon and you put the sticker and saying oh look in the 1975 there's there's an update um and so that was my first experience of editing the encyclopedia hansville

Yeah, yeah.

Huntsville is an interesting place because it grew from about 20,000 people to about 200,000 people in the 20 years from 1960 to 1980.

I'm born kind of in the middle of that.

So it was a boom town, and most of the people who came in were being brought from all over.

There was a period in time when Huntsville, Alabama had the highest per capita number of PhDs in the country because they brought all the rocket scientists to Huntsville.

And we lived close enough to where they would test the Saturn V booster rockets that the windows would rattle in the house.

So it was very exciting, you know, as a little kid, the idea of space and, you know, people going to the moon, it was amazing.

So yeah, I had a real love for technology.

Yeah, so Newpedia was the same vision, really.

It was a free encyclopedia to be written by volunteers.

But I didn't really understand online communities.

I didn't know what I was doing at all.

It had been inspired by seeing the growth of open source software programs coming together to collaborate in new ways.

Like Linux and things like that.

Yeah, Linux, and today it's a huge part of the infrastructure of the Internet is open source software.

But with Newpedia, one of the things that we were concerned about is trust.

We thought, oh, well, if it's just written by a bunch of sort of random people on the Internet, nobody will trust it.

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