Mailing List Archive: WikiHistory

WikiHistory

Mar 11, 2002, 3:29 PM

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To Ward and to Wikipedia's tech list,

On http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory it is claimed that this (c2.com)
is the first Wiki website, founded in 1994, as a supplement to the
Portland Pattern Repository. The next dates on the page say that
RecentVisitors and PeopleIndex were added in 1994, NotSoRecentChanges
in 1995, ThreadMode, ThreadModeConsideredHarmful, EditCopy and
WikiCategories in 1996.

However, the Internet Archive's Wayback machine shows no sign of any
Wiki in November 1996, when the c2.com website was first archived.
The Portland Pattern Repository is there, but it consists of plain
HTML files. The Wiki Wiki Web does show on the second archiving in
December 1997. See http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://c2.com

So where was the Wiki hiding during 1994, 1995, and 1996?

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Re: WikiHistory [ In reply to ]

ward at c2

Mar 11, 2002, 8:07 PM

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Lars Aronsson wrote:

> However, the Internet Archive's Wayback machine shows no sign of any Wiki in November 1996. So where was the Wiki hiding during 1994, 1995, and 1996?

I was careful to keep wiki quiet early on.

I've dug up some more dated information and added it to the end of the WikiHistory page. It looks like wiki went public in March of 1995.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory

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Re: WikiHistory [ In reply to ]

lars at aronsson

Mar 12, 2002, 3:43 AM

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Ward Cunningham wrote:
> I've dug up some more dated information and added it to the end of
> the WikiHistory page. It looks like wiki went public in March of
> 1995.
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory

Cool! The annual 100 % growth rate tells us this is an Internet
phenomenon. Don't you keep webserver access logs?

(My own Scandinavian literature gopher-then-website had its
first access at 8:10 pm on December 13, 1992, to be exact. :-)
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/admin/timeline.html)

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Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik
Teknikringen 1e, SE-583 30 Linuxköping, Sweden
tel +46-70-7891609
http://aronsson.se/ http://elektrosmog.nu/ http://susning.nu/