Despite Cunningham's usage of the term, the origins of the name wiki in commerce can be traced to the first U.S. Trademark on the name ""wiki"", which was filed a year before Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994 by a company called WikiDigs in Van Nuys, California on 12 Julaị 1993. The original trademark for ""wiki"" was used to describe a form of non-metal caps used for collecting and trading. However, the mark became abandoned by Disemba 1994 because of a failure to use the mark in commerce, opening the way to widespread adoption of the term in the computer industry.