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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki engine and wiki forum ever. The wiki engine has been developed in the Perl programming language since 1994 by [ | WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki engine and wiki forum ever. The wiki engine has been developed in the 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 software consultancy Cunningham & Cunningham, Incorporated, also in Portland, on March 25, 1995, as an automated add-on to its Portland Pattern Repository, a directory for publication of programming patterns which programmers sent by E-mail. | The wiki forum was inaugurated in the Internet domain of Cunningham's software consultancy Cunningham & Cunningham, Incorporated, also in Portland, on March 25, 1995, as an automated add-on to its Portland Pattern Repository, a directory for publication of programming patterns which programmers sent by E-mail. | ||
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{{tag|WikiWikiWeb and its SisterSites}} | {{tag|WikiWikiWeb and its SisterSites}} | ||
==External links== | |||
*[http://c2.com/~ward Ward's namepage] | |||