Just 30 years ago, the launch of the first of these publications took place: WikiWikiWeb, the work of programmer Ward Cunningham (Michigan, USA, 1949).

WikiWikiWeb, 'the world's first wiki,' presents the story of a shoe factory in the former Soviet Union as an example of how setting easily visible goals too easily could have led to unrealistic ...

Cunningham's idea was to make WikiWikiWeb's pages quickly editable by its users, so he initially thought about calling it "QuickWeb", but later changed his mind and dubbed it "WikiWikiWeb".

You can help.” As soon as Cunningham released WikiBase, the software underlying WikiWikiWeb, into the wild, wikis began to evolve, branching out to cover any number of topics and communities.

On March 25, 1995, Ward Cunningham launched WikiWikiWeb, the first ever "wiki" website. The idea of the site—then radical—was to allow users to add to and edit the site on the fly.

A technology with the strange-sounding name WikiWikiWeb (or just WikiWeb) simplifies both processes. Created in 1994 by Ward Cunningham, WikiWeb was loosely derived from HyperCard principles and ...

WikiWikiWeb was, thankfully, later shortened to “wiki” and over the course of the next few years, went through several iterations within its user community.

1995: The collaborative internet takes a giant leap forward with WikiWikiWeb, the first site that actually invites people to hack it. User-generated content and open source reporting are now ...