Ward Cunningham, Inventor of the Wiki
Channel: Wikimedia Foundation
Date: 2014-05-23

Ward Cunningham invented the Wiki, based on an offline HyperCard system that he had developed to track ideas as they flowed through his company. He named his invention the 'WikiWikiWeb' after he took a ride on an airport shuttle in the Honolulu airport called Wiki-Wiki. From the video: "It was my first Hawaiian word that I learned as they were trying to direct me to the Wiki-Wiki bus between terminals. 'Wiki' is an Hawaiian word that means quick and so 'Wiki-Wiki' means very quick so (the WikiWikiWeb) is the very quick web."

This interview was conducted in 2011 and published on occasion of Ward Cunningham's 65th birthday. See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/26/happy-birthday-ward-cunningham-inventor-of-the-wiki/

Also view on Wikimedia Commons (with editable subtitles): 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ward_Cunningham,_Inventor_of_the_Wiki.webm