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Relieved users welcome Wikipedia's return after 24-hour blackout

The lights have come back on at Wikipedia, following a 24-hour blackout that affected millions of users around the world.At midnight Wednesday ET, Wikipedia's English language website was up and running again, accompanied by the message, "Thank you for protecting Wikipedia. (We're not done yet.)""More than 150 million people saw our message asking if you could imagine a world without free knowledge. You said no. You shut down Congress' switchboards. You melted their servers. Your voice was loud and strong. Millions of people have spoken in defense of a free and open internet," Wikipedia said in a statement.The return of the online free information provider was welcomed by users who took to Twitter to express their relief the blackout was over."Welcome back, Wikipedia," Ernie Smith wrote, while Holly Fitzpatrick tweeted, "Never knew how much I relied on wikipedia until I procrastinated on my bio essays and had to scour for other links to tell me things...""In 50 years our grandchildren ...

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