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Please do insert prior art reference, if you have one. As far as I know, no one disputes the creation story of the first wiki as being by Ward Cunningham.
by SwellJoe 12y ago
Please do insert prior art reference, if you have one.
As far as I know, no one disputes the creation story of the first wiki as being by Ward Cunningham.
- agumonkey 12y agoThe only thing that comes to mind is Douglas Engelbart mother of all demo. It features a collaborative edition of a distributed document. Other than that, it seems Cunningham was the sole soul behind wikis.
- Terr_ 12y agoMostly it's a knee-jerk reaction that all popoular things are usually just the tip of a huge iceberg of incremental improvements and other attempts at virtually the same stuff... But I did find something PARC-related: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=215706 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=215706 Note the use of collaborative editing of text, and optimistic concurrency control for local changes. > As far as I know, no one disputes the creation story of the first wiki as being by Ward Cunningham. Nor that the first Model T Ford was created by Henry Ford :)