Metababy was a wiki

Wiki

A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...

 created and coded by Greg Knauss

Greg Knauss

Greg Knauss is an American Internet humorist and computer programmer. He was born in Torrance, California. In college at the University of California, San Diego, he was the editor of Muir College Erratically, a small humor publication, as well as a frequent contributor to the UCSD Guardian student...

 and designed by Leslie Harpold, that allowed raw HTML

HTML

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, JavaScript

JavaScript

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 and CSS

CSS

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 in its pages. The wiki ran from November 1998 to May 2003.

At one time Metababy would auto-create a page from every email sent to the address metababy@metababy.com.

The wiki died out due to the increasing number of spam

Forum spam

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and offensive posts. It was later resurrected, but was then shut down again.