This Web site and the software it runs on were created by WardCunningham for the PortlandPatternRepository. It is home to an InformalHistoryOfProgrammingIdeas as well as a large volume of material recording related discourses and collaboration between its readers.
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WikiBase hosts the original pages from the earliest wiki. SeeThis page mirrored in ComponentDesignPatterns as of April 29, 2006