WikiWikiWeb
The homepage of the WikiWikiWeb in 2003 | |
Website type | Wiki with focus on software design patterns |
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| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | Portland, Oregon |
| Owners | Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. |
| Creator | Ward Cunningham |
| Website | wiki |
| Registration | Not implemented; users can edit using any name and optionally create a page about themselves under that name |
| Launched | March 25, 1995 |
| Current status | Active (Read-only indefinitely since February 1, 2015) |
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location. Replace with headquarters.The WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki, or user-editable website. It was launched on 25 March 1995 by programmer Ward Cunningham and has been a read-only archive since 2015. The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the website, which was later renamed to "WikiBase".