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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 {{tag|collaboration}} with his former colleagues at Tektronix in Portland, Oregon.
-As of 2014.12.26 23:46 C2 is effectively locked indefinitely by a world wide [[RangeBlock]]. The HomePage does not mention of it and pages appear to be editable until one tries to save the edit.
+As of 2014.12.26 23:46 C2 is effectively locked indefinitely by a world wide [[RangeBlock]], in order to stop nearly-continuous automated page creation by [[user:Manorainjan]] of off-topic material and pages with names consisting of strings of repeated characters and no meaningful content. The HomePage does not mention it and pages appear to be editable until one tries to save the edit.
 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 Pattern Repository]], a directory for publication of programming patterns which programmers sent by E-mail.