03/16/2026
🌐 The First Wiki — March 16, 1995!
On March 16, 1995, a programmer named Ward Cunningham launched a website with a strange idea: anyone could edit any page. No password. No approval. No editor. Just trust.
He named it WikiWikiWeb, after the “wiki wiki” shuttle buses at Honolulu Airport. Wiki wiki means “quick” in Hawaiian. What he built changed how the entire world shares knowledge.
Six years later, Wikipedia was born from that same idea. Today it serves 15 billion page views a month, covers 62 million articles, and remains completely non-profit and ad-free. All because one programmer believed people would do the right thing if you just let them.
👇 We wrote the full story, where the wiki came from, how Wikipedia grew from a single page into humanity’s largest reference work, and why Ward Cunningham’s bet on trust was the most important idea of the early internet.
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30 years ago, Ward Cunningham launched WikiWikiWeb — the world's first wiki. One quiet idea that eventually became Wikipedia and changed how humanity shares knowledge.