User:DGButterworth

Accumulations Biographical

 * - Sometime Attorney and Counselor at Law.
 * - Occassioned practitioner of science.
 * - Aspiring to practically scientific.
 * - Constantly curious.
 * - Compulsive collector of WhatNots and bits of bytes (or other info).
 * - Crusader against entropy, but actively the devil's advocate.

Some of my favorite things:

 * - The idea of it.
 * - Second law of thermodynamics
 * - Wiki's

Reflecting on History
The idea of a Wiki may seem odd at first  , but dive in   explore its links and it will soon seem familiar. "Wiki" is a composition system; it's a discussion medium; it's a repository; it's a mail system; it's a tool for collaboration. We don't know quite what it is, but we do know it's a fun way to communicate asynchronously across the network.
 * Echos from the first wiki:

Front Page (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki - visited 2014-11-17)


 * And back in 1996 or so:


 * WikiWikiWeb

A cgi-bin script written in perl pulled this page out of a dbm file and converted it to html on the fly. (see MoreAboutMechanics) The point is to make the EditText form simple and the FindPage search fast. I've written a similar program several times as a stack (WikiWikiHyperCard) and found easy authoring and fast searching to be important.

Wiki wiki means quick in Hawai'ian, at least I think it does. They call the shuttle at the Honolulu airport the wiki wiki bus.


 * WikiWikiBugs
 * WikiWikiPlans
 * WikiWikiSuggestions
 * WikiWikiClones
 * WikiWikiKudos

-- WardCunningham

 http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb (some links omitted) -- as it appeared on 1996-11-29, captured at: http://web.archive.org/web/19961129194919/http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb