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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › BomisBomis - Wikipedia

    Bomis was a dot-com company that supported the creation of Nupedia and Wikipedia, and provided pornographic content. It was co-founded by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis in 1996, and dissolved in 2007.

  2. Bomis was an Internet company that created Nupedia and Wikipedia. It also hosted entertainment-, sports- and sexual-themed sites and closed in 2006.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › NupediaNupedia - Wikipedia

    Nupedia was an English-language online encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors with relevant subject matter expertise, reviewed by expert editors before publication, and licensed as free content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief.

  4. Jun 30, 2019 · Bomis, Inc. ( / ˈbɒmɪs / , from Bitter Old Men in Suits; [14] rhyming with "promise") [15] was a dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. [9] It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis.

  5. Bomis was a dot-com company that supported Nupedia and Wikipedia, two online-encyclopedia projects. It also sold adult content and advertising, and became inactive in 2007.

  6. Bomis Koori IV was a planet in the Mid Rim, and was the main gathering point of Corporate Alliance defensive forces on the surrounding worlds during the Clone Wars. Bomis Koori IV belonged to a pocket of Koorivar colony worlds, it hosted Corporate Alliance factories were responsible for the...

  7. Mar 19, 2013 · Wales: In 1996 we started a search engine and web directory called Bomis. It was sort of like Yahoo. The main difference was that users could make web rings, connecting sites that had similar...