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Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb. The history of wikis began in 1994, when Ward Cunningham gave the name "WikiWikiWeb" to the knowledge base, which ran on his company's website at c2.com, and the wiki software that powered it.
Wikipedia was initially conceived as a feeder project for the Wales-founded Nupedia, an earlier project to produce a free online encyclopedia, volunteered by Bomis, a web-advertising firm owned by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell and Michael E. Davis.
Jan 3, 2015 · As there was a desire to keep a degree of separation between the two projects, the Wiki was named "Wikipedia" and installed on its own domain, going live in early 2001. Wikipedia grew rapidly, and soon eclipsed Nupedia, both in terms of size and popularity. Nupedia continued to be developed, but it lost its editor-in-chief in December 2001, and ...
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Jan 15, 2017 · On March 25, 1995, a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham premiered what he called “WikiWikiWeb” on his website, c2.com. The “wiki” part was inspired by the Wiki Wiki Shuttle service at the...
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Jan 15, 2016 · Elizabeth Renstrom for TIME. By Lily Rothman. January 15, 2016 7:00 AM EST. W ikipedia went live on Jan. 15, 2001, but the now-omnipresent online reference couldn’t have existed without work that...
3 days ago · Wikipedia, free Internet-based encyclopaedia, started in 2001, that operates under an open-source management style. It is overseen by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia uses a collaborative software known as wiki that facilitates the creation and development of articles. Although some highly publicized problems have called attention ...
Jan 13, 2021 · Wikipedia was launched as the ugly stepsibling of a whole other online encyclopedia, Nupedia. That site, launched in 1999, included a rigorous seven-step process for publishing articles written...
