Peter Steiner created this adage, and the New Yorker published it on July 5, 1993. This was just under two years after the World Wide Web became available to the public.

Larry Sanger alludes to this cartoon, as it is a symbol of understanding the anonymity of online users.

The interview was with NextShark, conducted in March 2014.

The interviewer asked Mahbod, “Did you think [Rap Genius] would grow to be this big?

To which he replied:

I guess I always knew, but I mean now experiencing it is kind of overwhelming, you know. Like, sometimes I think I would’ve been better off just being a corporate lawyer. But at least what’s cool about being involved in the project I’m involved in is it’s bringing a new way of thinking to human culture, like a new way of congealing human knowledge and critiquing things and creating dialogue around text. So I’m willing to suffer the corporate heat to bring this tremendous message to humanity. Because I think it’s bigger than Facebook, you know. It’s like, much better than Wikipedia, and that makes it better than Facebook, so…

https://youtu.be/nrEyxNqyw24?t=66

This is apparently for a number of reasons, the main one being notability.

Under the General Notability Guideline, it states that a page must receive significant coverage:

“Significant coverage” addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material.

This rule in particular makes it quite difficult for the average person someone who’s secretly awesome to appear on Wikipedia.

Everipedia wants to change all that, by giving people the freedom to create pages about anything they want. (Who’s to say what is and what isn’t significant?)

Is [this] relevant information?

-Sargon of Akkad

He reached this famous milestone on June 19, 2015, smashing a solo shot for his 3000th hit.

Watch the majestic homer here, or in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RohR1Sjj4l8

Trivia: A-Rod is the third player to hit a home run for his 3000th career hit. The other two? Wade Boggs and A-Rod’s longtime teammate Derek Jeter.

Alex Rodriguez was the fourth player to reach the 2,000 RBI plateau. Hank Aaron (2297) and Babe Ruth (2214) are the only players who rank higher in that category.

Refer to the two-run shot that put him in this elite list here, or in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQUV2q2VxSo

His MLB debut was on July 8, 1994 against the Boston Red Sox. He represented the Seattle Mariners, a team that had Hall of Famers Ken Griffey Jr., Randy Johnson, and Rich “Goose” Gossage. Other standout players include longtime Mariners Edgar Martinez and Jay Buhner, along with a young Tino Martinez.

The M’s lost the game, 4-3, in dramatic fashion: three great defensive outs in a row in the top of the 9th inning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Yz1Wg0fgI

(Amazingly, this was the game where John Valentin turned an unassisted triple play, as well.)

The three in front of him are:

• Barry Bonds (762)
• Hank Aaron (755)
• Babe Ruth (714)

A-Rod has 696 long balls, 351 hit as a Bronx Bomber, 189 as a member of the Mariners, and 156 with the Rangers.

Fun Fact: He is the only player in Major League history to hit 150+ home runs for three different ball clubs.

This article references the relaunch of Slingshot, and it failed to work.

There was also the Poke app… and, boy, what a fail that was.

Speaking of Google (and its products), remember the Facebook/YouTube war…?

Remember when Facebook was all about the views (even though Facebook views didn’t really mean anything, as a view counted whenever it reached the 3-second mark while YouTube’s was at 30 seconds)?

Remember that it didn’t doesn’t do anything when content aggregators literally steal content from YouTube, put it on Facebook, and generate a huge fan base/amount of revenue because of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q