Wikipedia is up (2001)
I was in library school around this time (a couple years later, actually), and I remember that Wikipedia was a hot topic: can it be trusted, and why is the answer &quot;no&quot;?<p>Bucking that trend somewhat, I was in the cautiously optimistic camp. By that time it was already more useful to me than the Encyclopedia Britannica, and getting better all the time. The trajectory was clear.<p>It seems like, of all the exciting things from the early web, Wikipedia has been one of the only things that actually panned out the way it was intended. It didn&#x27;t get commercialized, but it didn&#x27;t go broke either. It didn&#x27;t become a cesspool, or try to consume all of my attention. It just does the thing it&#x27;s supposed to do. If there was a fire on the internet, and I could only save one website, it would be you Wikipedia.