‘Be good and play nice!’
IDEA No 67
THE WIKI
Documents that can be edited simultaneously by multiple people are now commonplace. Before Ward Cunningham invented the wiki in 1995, this was not so easy.
Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki.
In the early ’90s, the state-of-the-art collaboration tool was the LISTSERV. When an email is sent to a LISTSERV mailing list, it is automatically broadcast to everyone on the list. Ward Cunningham noticed that older messages were lost, buried under the more recent posts. He proposed that messages were collated ...
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