Stumbled across this quote:
...it is more accurate to think of weblogs and wikis as work arounds for the broken parts of the web, rather than a new innovation. In Tim Berners-Lee's initial vision and implementation, every browser was also an editor.
at an old post from Tuttle SVC.
I agree with this to some extent. Many of the people that I demonstrate wikis to find the ease of use refereshing after seeing tools such as SharePoint or other branded intranet packages. The same thing happens when I speak to a group about blogs and then show them how easy it is to set up an account on Blogger. Wikis and blogs make it extremely easy for the common person/employee to contribute to the conversation.
The original HTML tags made it very easy to create content. The hard part back then (circa 1994/5) was figuring out FTP. What was my first stab at web content? It was a FAQ for Absolutely Fabulous. I wrote it in 1994.
