Larry Sanger

Nine theses, actually, is what you're referring to on LarrySanger.org and actually posted from my user page on Wikipedia.

That's where I first put it.

So the origin story of Wikipedia.

Basically, I knew Jimmy Wales for...

Actually, one of the very first discussion groups I ever got into on the Internet in 1994, I think, was something called the Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy, MDOP, which Jimmy Wales was the owner and moderator of.

And so we got into some debates and so forth.

And he called me up one time after we had an argument or something and tried to smooth things over.

So I thought that was nice.

And later, I was taking a trip across the country and visited him and a mutual friend of ours who also lived in Chicago at the time on my way over to visit my uncle.

And...

we actually got to know each other face to face.

So, you know, we weren't, we weren't really close friends, but we were friends sort of in, and, um,

When I was looking around in 2000 for a way to pivot my work on the internet, because I had started a website before this, I was looking for advice from friends about what to do with a website that I had been working on.

And that was Newpedia?

Yeah, it's called Sanger's Review.

I see.

Yeah, it's no longer online.

And he said, well, don't work on that.

Come and actually work for me and you'll start a new encyclopedia called Newpedia.

Yeah.