<p>On this day in 2000, Nupedia, a multi-language online encyclopedia, and predecessor of Wikipedia, was launched.</p><p>"Unlike Wikipedia, Nupedia was not a wiki; it was instead characterized by an extensive peer-review process, designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to that of professional encyclopedias."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia</a></p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/wikipedia/" rel="tag">#wikipedia</a> <a href="/tags/nupedia/" rel="tag">#nupedia</a></p>