army1987 comments on Beware Trivial Inconveniences - Less Wrong

90 Post author: Yvain 06 May 2009 10:04PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 20 May 2012 07:47:04PM 3 points [-]

Even after normalizing by the total number of visitors to FOLDOC and the total number of visitors to Wikipedia respectively?

Comment author: taw 23 May 2012 12:20:09PM 6 points [-]

Wikipedia didn't get hundreds of millions of visitors until after it got so big.

I know it's hard to believe, but when we started in 2001, it was a very tiny very obscure website people were commonly making fun of, and we were excited with any coverage we could get (and getting omg slashdotted - that was like news of the month).