Application Development Trends - Ward Cunningham on Wikis, Patterns, Mashups and More

Insights from wiki creator Ward Cunningham: 

ADT: How did you come to create WikiWikiWeb? What was your original impetus?
Cunningham: I have always been interested in how practice spreads in engineering communities. In the early '90s I wrote a HyperCard application made especially for collecting engineer's recollections regarding engineering projects within Tektronix. I asked visitors to describe how people carried ideas between projects and I found that participants were attracted to the authoring style (top-down hypertext) supported by the application.

In '95 I set out to duplicate the authoring experience of my previous application while using the forms capability of the Web.

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Source: Application Development Trends - Ward Cunningham on Wikis, Patterns, Mashups and More