WikiWikiWeb

   WikiWikiWeb (also c2 Wiki or just Wiki) was the first ever created [1]wiki
   (user editable) website, created in 1995 in [2]Perl by [3]Ward Cunningham.
   It was focused on [4]software engineering and [5]computer [6]technology in
   general but included a plethora of discussion and pages touching other
   topics as well, e.g. politics, [7]humor or nerd and [8]hacker culture. The
   principles on which it stood, most importantly allowing users to edit its
   the highly [9]hyperlinked pages, largely influenced thousands of
   subsequently emerging sites which made use of the same concepts -- these
   sites are now collectively called [10]wikis, most famous of which is
   [11]Wikipedia. The style of WikiWikiWeb was partly an inspiration for our
   [12]LRS wiki too.

   The project quite impressively spawned over 36000 pages
   (http://c2.com/cgi/wikiPages). Since 2014 the wiki can no longer be edited
   due to vandalism, but it's still online. It was originally available at
   http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki, now at http://wiki.c2.com/ (sadly now requires
   [13]JavaScript, WTF how is this a hacker site???).

   The site's engine was kind of [14]suckless/[15]KISS, even Wikipedia looks
   [16]bloated compared to it. It was pure unformatted [17]HTML that used a
   very clever system of [18]hyperlinks between articles: any [19]CamelCase
   multiword in the text was interpreted as a link to an article, so for
   example the word SoftwareDevelopment was automatically a link to a page
   called Software Development. This presented a slight issue e.g. for
   single-word topics but the creativity required for overcoming the obstacle
   was part of the [20]fun, for example the article on [21]C was called
   CeeLanguage.

   Overall the site was also very different from [22]Wikipedia and allowed
   informal comments, [23]jokes and subjective opinions in the text. It was
   pretty entertaining to read. There's a lot of old hacker wisdom to be
   found there. On the other hand it was a bit retarded too though, a bit
   like [24]hacker news of its time, except a tiny bit less stupid maybe. The
   people were not as much focused on pure hacking but rather on "software
   engineering", i.e. manipulating and "managing" people, they were obsessed
   with [25]OOP patterns and things like that.

   There are other wikis that work in similar spirit, e.g. CommunityWiki
   (https://communitywiki.org, a wiki "about communities"), MeatBallWiki
   (http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/) or EmacsWiki.

Interesting Pages

   These are some interesting pages found on the Wiki.

   { NOTE: To see all pages in given category go to the category page and
   CLICK THE PAGE TITLE. ~drummyfish }

     * CategoryCategory: List of categories of pages.
     * CategoryHumor: Humorous pages.
     * ComputerGame
     * ExtinctionOfHumanity: Discussing end of humanity and a possible
       [26]collapse.
     * GameOfChess: About [27]chess.
     * LanguageGotchas
     * WeirdErrorMessages
     * WikiWikiWebFaq
     * WithinTwentyYears: Mostly pre-2005 predictions about what technology
       would be like in 20 years, a lot of hits and misses.
     * WikiHistory

See Also

     * [28]Jargon File
     * [29]Wikipedia

Links:
1. wiki.md
2. perl.md
3. cunningham.md
4. sw_engineering.md
5. computer.md
6. tech.md
7. jokes.md
8. hacking.md
9. hyperlink.md
10. wiki.md
11. wikipedia.md
12. lrs_wiki.md
13. js.md
14. suckless.md
15. kiss.md
16. bloat.md
17. html.md
18. hypertext.md
19. camelcase.md
20. fun.md
21. c.md
22. wikipedia.md
23. jokes.md
24. hacker_news.md
25. oop.md
26. collapse.md
27. chess.md
28. jargon_file.md
29. wikipedia.md