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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: Wikipedia, The Last Good Place On The Internet (2003) w/ Garrett Graff
Description: It's June 24th. In 2003, Jimmy Wales, the owner of Wikipedia, made the decision to put the site under the ownership of a non-profit company.Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss why this decision made a huge difference for the site, and reflected a lot of the ways that the Internet has worked, and not worked, in the decades since. They are joined by journalist Garrett Graff, host of a new series called "Long Shadow: Breaking The Internet."Β The first episode of Long Shadow is out now!Find out more at thisdaypod.comT...