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March 25, 1995

On March 25, 1995, wikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham. The year's #1 song was "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio featuring L.V.. Jofra Archer, Logan Paul, Pedro Cachin would arrive in the same year.

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1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1995th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 995th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1990s decade.

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On March 25, 1995

  1. 1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.

    First user-editable website (launched 1995)

    The WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki, or user-editable website. It was launched on 25 March 1995 by programmer Ward Cunningham and has been a read-only archive since 2015. The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the website, which was later renamed to "WikiBase".

Farewells

Died on March 25, 1995

James Samuel Coleman American sociologist (1926–1995)
John Hugenholtz Dutch racetrack designer (1914–1995)

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The class of 1995

Others born in 1995

Jofra Archer 1995– Barbadian-English cricketer
Logan Paul 1995– American YouTuber, actor and wrestler
Pedro Cachin 1995– Argentine tennis player
Baker Mayfield 1995– American football player
Georgie Friedrichs 1995– Australian rugby sevens player
Leander Dendoncker 1995– Belgian footballer

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