I've seen both Wales and Gardner (e.g., [1]) note that Wikipedia began with Wales typing in "Hello World".
[1]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/12/wikipedia-int...
That's a neat historical fact, but is there a source? From the Starling archive it appears the first contribution was from office.bomis.com at Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:27:13 +0000 .
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