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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Wikipedia went live on Jan. 15, 2001, but the now-omnipresent online reference couldn’t have existed without work that began ...