Bomis

Bomis
âš The templateInfobox dot-com companyis being considered for deletion. âşBomis(/ËbÉmÉ¨s/ to rhyme with "promise") was a dot-com company founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales and Tim Shell. Its primary business was the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal, and to provide support for the free encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. As of 2006, Tim Shell was the CEO of Bomis,[potrzebne źródło] but it seems to have disappeared from the Internet the same year. The name was an acronym of Bitter Old Men in Suits.
Bomis created and hosted web rings around search terms popular among male users. The rings were categorized broadly as "Babe", "Entertainment", "Sports", "Adult", "Science fiction", and "Other". The "Adult", "Babe", and "Entertainment" categories were the most frequently updated and the most popular.[potrzebne źródło] In addition, Bomis hosted a copy of the Open Directory Project search directory.[potrzebne źródło] These search-related pages generated revenue from advertising and affiliate marketing.[potrzebne źródło]
Hosted content[img]//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Sylvia_Saint_001.jpg/150px-Sylvia_Saint_001.jpg[/img]Silvia Saint in a Bomis T-Shirt

Bomis ran a website calledBomis Premiumat premium.bomis.com until 2005, offering customers access to premium, X-rated pornographic content.
Until mid-2005, Bomis also featured theBomis Babe Report,a free blog, publishing news and reviews about celebrities, models, and the adult entertainment industry. TheBabe Reportprominently linked toBomis Premiumand frequently posted updates about new models joining Bomis. Bomis has also operated nekkid.info, a free repository of selected erotic photographs, and also hostedThe Babe Engine, "a precision babe search engine", which indexes photos ranging from glamour photography to pornography.
In addition, Bomis has provided hosting to websites supporting Objectivist and other libertarian political views, including the "Freedom's Nest", a database of books and quotes, and "We the Living", a large objectivist community website which is now defunct.

Role in the creation of Nupedia and Wikipedia[img]//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d6/Bomis-staff-summer-2000-edit2.jpg/350px-Bomis-staff-summer-2000-edit2.jpg[/img]The Bomis staff, as of the summer of 2000.

Main article: History of Wikipedia
Bomis is best known for having supported the creation of the free-content online encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. Bomis hosted Nupedia in 2000, and Larry Sanger was hired to manage and edit that project. A year into the development of Nupedia, Bomis decided http://webmastercoffee.com/en/site/automaten-technik.pl/ the project was too expensive,[potrzebne źródło] and a so-called "wiki" was set up as a way to solicit free new drafts for Nupedia.Wikias a word, as a concept, and as a software technology for websites that allows multiple users to edit and update a text or program quickly and easily, was an invention of and created and developed by Ward Cunningham in 1994. The new online-encyclopedia based on Ward's wiki-technology, was named Wikipedia and it looked exactly the same as Cunningham's websites. While originally intended as a "feeder" project for Nupedia, Wikipediaâwith its much lower barriers to contribution, and its much lower costs for Bomisârapidly outgrew its parent in size and attention.
For a while, Bomis provided web servers and bandwidth for these projects, paid Sanger in his role as project editor-in-chief (until he left the projects in 2002), and owned key items such as the associated domain names. However, as the costs of Wikipedia rose with its popularity, Bomis' revenues declined as result of the dot-com crash, a general reluctance to display advertising on the siteâtogether with a desire from the Wikipedia community to reflect the spirit of openness and neutrality central to Wikipediaâsuggested an alternative ownership model.
The Wikimedia Foundation was formally announced on June 20, 2003. All intellectual property and domain name assets, including "Wikipedia", were transferred or donated over to the foundation, which was registered as a non-profit organization, but the server hardware was not transferred. Bomis CEO Tim Shell became the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the foundation, with Jimmy Wales as another board member.

External links and sources

- Jimmy Wales on the Wikipedia-L mailing list about Bomis October 28, 2001
- Jimmy Wales and Bomis - Times Online
- Jimmy Wales and Bomis - Wired
- Bomis at the Internet Archive

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