John De Bruyn came up with this idea in 1997 as a place for people to feel free to dabble in the wiki way, meaning - try editing, it is easy and you can't break anything. The first sandbox page is in the Internet Archive at:
https://web.Archive.org/web/19980115043939/http://C2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiSandBox
See Also
https://en.mepedia.org/wiki/Sandbox . Help with editing MediaWiki Pages. ( DarthNZ 16:00 G4 Oct 2025).