Wikipedia was launched by Jimmy Wales on January 15, 2001, and its birthday is celebrated each year on Wikipedia Day. I don’t know how you plan to celebrate, but I’ll do what I do every day: Use Wikipedia for research, research, research for my fiction.
Information is accessible to all and is free, but it’s wise to remember that Wikipedia is a user-generated site. Anyone can input, remove, and edit information. It’s where I start, and then I find other sources to corroborate my findings. I’m mostly looking for cultural and historical information related to certain time periods, and I can do it from my own space with any device that gets Internet, no matter how weird my schedule is.
If I made a list of everything I’ve researched in the last two hours…
Thank you, Wikipedia, and happy birthday!
ETA: Today’s do-over consisted of some better equipment to play music to write to. I did write (and started work on a coloring page when I needed to stop to think), and here was the playlist. I got through the “A” artists in the first binder.
It’s funny that the three female vocalists are Tom’s, and the Allman Brothers are mine. This is a case where we each enjoy music the other has purchased. (Gregg Allman’s music is downloaded into my iTunes library.)