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wiki wiki: snapshot etymology 
06.23.2005, 3:49 PM
Found on Flickr: the famous "wiki wiki" shuttle bus at the Honolulu airport. In Hawaiian pidgin, "wiki wiki" means "quick," or "informal," and is what inspired Ward Cunningham in 1995 to name his new openly editable web document engine "wiki", or the WikiWikiWeb.
(photo by cogdogblog)
Posted by ben vershbow at June 23, 2005 03:49 PM
tags: history_of_interactive_media, the_networked_book
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