expand_less Wiki blewexisted myfor mind,years before Wikipedia was started, and they have a nice [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki|article about it]]. I encountered wiki a couple of years before the turn of the millennium and it hasblew beenmy mind, one of several formative experiences toward better understandings of the webweb, hypertext, and hypertextperhaps most of all collaboration and thecommunity, Internet,in general and community.of course in particular on the Internet.
 
This website you're looking at right now is a wiki of sorts, using a particular software project called [[Wagn]].
 
Wiki is blogging's older, slower, less linear, more influential step-cousin.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
 
The original wiki - the Portland Pattern Repository, also known as Ward's Wiki, hostwas built to earlysupport the development ofa [[pattern language]] of [[programming]] [[patterns]].and succeeded at least in developing a set of patterns for programming, and sparking mass interest in that way of approaching programming.
http://open.wikiblogplanet.com/http://www.wikipatterns.com/
 
Personal public wikis of note:
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/
http://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/3D80058C-14D8-5361-0B61-A061F89BAF87