You know what the web is like. It's that thing full of pages that you flit between, clicking on linky thingys to see more pages. You read, and move on. It wasn't supposed to be like that. When Sir Tim ...

Jim Pettiward explains the origin, meaning and use of the word 'wiki' and one of its best known derivatives, 'Wikipedia'. Click below to hear his explanation: Jimmy Wales, Head of Wikipedia 'Wiki' – W ...

1995: The collaborative internet takes a giant leap forward with WikiWikiWeb, the first site that actually invites people to hack it. User-generated content and open source reporting are now standards ...

Wiki Wiki bus at the Honolulu International Airport. Image Credit: Andrew Laing via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0 On March 25, 1995, a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham premiered what he ...

As the world of Web 2.0 has brought many new components to the user, aside from social communities which keep emerging and showing growth, the world of the WIKI is starting to make noise. Wikis are ...

On the 30th anniversary of the first 'wiki', we spoke with its creator about the invention that so irritates technopopulists. "Wikipedia is the technology that has most helped world peace". If you are ...