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In early March, 2003, I received a shocking email from Jimmy Wales. Jimmy was the former owner of blogdex.com, blogdex.net and blogdex.org, and emailed to offer them to MIT since he had no further use for them. No solicitation, no intent to sell, just the simple offer to move them over to MIT's control. Amidst all of the tension and backstabbing surrounding the Internet Domain Name registry, this was the first time I had ever heard of such altrusitic behavior. We are quite grateful to Jimmy for this windfall, one that will allow people to find Blogdex more easily. Jimmy is also the founder of Wikipedia, the free, user-created encyclopedia. If you have not used it recently, it is one of the best Internet resources available today. The Blogdex Team all content copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003 MIT Media Laboratory Special thanks to Wikipedia for the blogdex.net domain name |
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