بومیس
Sign in to saveBomis, Inc. (, from Bitter Old Men in Suits; rhyming with "promise") was an American dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. By 2007, the company was inactive, with its Wikipedia-related resources transferred to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Bomis, Inc.
- Website.logo
- Bomis oval.svg
- Website.company_type
- Private
- Website.foundation
- 1996
- Website.CEO
- Tim Shell
- Website.location_city
- St. Petersburg, Florida
- Website.location_country
- United States
- Website.industry
- Dot-com
- Website.num_employees
- 10
- Website.url
- bomis.com, archived at the Internet Archive
- Website.language
- English
- Website.advertising
- Yes
- Website.registration
- No
- Website.launch_date
- 1996
- Website.dissolved
- 2007
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- web portal
- Headquarters
- St. Petersburg
- Owned by
- Jimmy Wales
- Industry
- Internet
- Employees
- 10
- Official website
- bomis.com
- Image
- Bomis founders in 2006.jpg
- Motto
- Remember, if you aren't having fun, it isn't Bomis!
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- inception
- 1996-01-01
- Commons category
- Bomis
- end time
- 2010-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2007-00-00
- product or material produced
- web portal
- native label
- Bomis
- contains
- softcore pornography
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