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wiki wiki: snapshot etymology Post date  06.23.2005, 3:49 PM

posted by ben vershbow

wikiwikibus.jpg

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 on June 23, 2005 3:49 PM
tags: history_of_interactive_media, the_networked_book

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