Where Did Wikiwiki Come from?
Wikis Can Be Dated to 1995, When American Computer Programmer Ward Cunningham Created a New Collaborative Technology for Organizing Information on Web Sites...
Wikis can be dated to 1995, when American computer programmer Ward Cunningham created a new collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites. Using a Hawaiian term meaning “quick,” he called this new software WikiWikiWeb, attracted by its alliteration and also by its matching abbreviation (WWW).
What is meant by the word Wikiwiki in Hawaiian?
What's in a wiki? Wiki was introduced to the lexicon by computer programmer Ward Cunningham in 1995 when he created collaborative software that he called WikiWikiWeb. Wiki is Hawaiian for “to hurry; fast, quick.”
Where did the term wiki come from?
WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki
He considered calling the software "quick-web," but instead named it using the Hawaiian word "wiki-wiki," which means "quick-quick" or "very quick," based on his memory of the Wiki Wiki Shuttle at Honolulu International Airport.
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