Wikipedia was launched Jan. 15, 2001, and the collaborative open encyclopedia has remained a top go-to website for information. The Onion looks back at the biggest moments in Wikipedia’s history on the site’s 20th anniversary.
1776-2000: Americans really bad at history, geography, and remembering personal details of celebrities.
2001: Jimmy Wales writes 18,000 articles in first year of Wikipedia holed up in a Berlin apartment doing cocaine.
2003: Site co-founder Larry Sanger resigns over disagreement about whether entries should be factual.
2004: Page on the decline of print media goes live.
2008: Colorado 12-year-old Trevor Schulte aces his report on Bolivia.
2009: Pathetic administrators bizarrely ask readers for money instead of blanketing every corner of site with pop-up ads.
2010: 40,000 Wikipedia pages destroyed during fire set by invading Romans.
2012: Site’s credibility gets a black eye when Ajay Naidu’s name is misspelled in the Office Space entry.
2017: Internet finally fucked up enough for Wikipedia to be considered one of the most reliable sources.