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'''WikiWikiWeb''' is the first {{tag|Wiki Engine|wiki engine}} and wiki forum ever. The wiki engine has been developed in the {{tag|Perl}} programming language since 1994 by [[WardCunningham]], and is based on a HyperCard stack that Cunningham designed for collaboration with his former colleagues at Tektronix in Portland, Oregon.

The wiki forum was inaugurated in the Internet domain of Cunningham's {{tag|software}} consultancy Cunningham & Cunningham, Incorporated, also in Portland, on March 25, 1995, as an automated add-on to its Portland Patterns Repository, a directory for publication of programming patterns which programmers sent by E-mail.

Both the wiki engine and the wiki forum are called ''WikiWikiWeb''. Abbreviated variants of the name ''WikiWikiWeb'' are ''WikiWiki'' and ''Wiki''. Cunningham named WikiWikiWeb after Wiki Wiki, a line of Chance RT-52 shuttle buses running between terminals at Honolulu International Airport. The name of the shuttle line is derived from the Hawaiian-language expression ''wiki wiki'', which is a word reduplication of ''wiki'', a word that means "fast". The reduplication ''wiki wiki'' is used to emphasize ''wiki'', so ''wiki wiki'' could be translated as "faster than fast".

The tag line of WikiWikiWeb is "People, Programming and Patterns". The original purpose of WikiWikiWeb was to document programming patterns, especially for members of [http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/johnson/ Ralph Johnson]'s patterns mailing list, and for people who attended the Patterns Languages of Programs Conference (PLoP) and the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA).

However, around 1996 to 1998 approximately, discussion of extreme programming (XP) became more popular, and the first members of WikiWikiWeb, who preferred to discuss patterns, started emigrating. Some of them later complained about [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MissingWikiBeforeXp missing Wiki before XP].

Many former regular users of WikiWikiWeb have complained that the discussion on WikiWikiWeb has deteriorated since about 1999 or 2000, and some of them have described that deterioration as the [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeatDeathOfWiki heat death of Wiki]. This wiki is part of the {{tag|RealNamesNetwork}} and {{tag|WikiWikiWebAndItsSisterSites}}.

WikiWikiWeb was {{tag|FoundedIn1995}}.