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  • Eager EagleEnglish
    27•8 months ago

    Cunningham came up with the name WikiWikiWeb because he remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee who told him to take the Wiki Wiki Shuttle, a shuttle bus line that runs between the airport’s terminals. “Wiki Wiki” is a reduplication of “wiki”, a Hawaiian language word for “quick”.[7] Cunningham’s idea was to make WikiWikiWeb’s pages quickly editable by its users, so he initially thought about calling it “QuickWeb”, but later changed his mind and dubbed it “WikiWikiWeb”.

    cool

  • @dezmdEnglish
    14•8 months ago

    Ah yes, in the days of the Wiki Wiki Wild Wild Web.

    • Oliver Lowe
      10•8 months ago

      Sorry to be a pain; I believe the correct term is “World Wide Wiki Wiki Wild Wild Web”. But we usually just say “WWWWWWW” which is super short and easier to type.

  • @dragontamerEnglish
    8•8 months ago

    Early wikis were wild.

    “We” implemented forums by just repeatedly editing a page and leaving a --Username, and it was all on the honor system.

    Kinda emulated like this --User2WouldReply

    Yeah, like this --User3