History of PBworks

PBworks launched  in 2005 as PBwiki. It changed its name to PBworks in April, 2009 to reflect its expanded services. The PB stands for "peanut butter" in reference to the idea that PBworks makes setting up a wiki as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich.

According to the PBworks press room (2010), PBworks (http://pbworks.com) is the world's leading provider of hosted businesses and education wikis. PBworks hosts more than three times as many pages of content as the English language version of Wikipedia. They host over a million team workspaces and serve over three users per month. Companies and organizations such as FedEx, DePaul University, the Mayo Clinic, and the FDA utilize PBworks to collaborate across geographic and organizational boundaries. PBworks was featured as one of the 30 new media tools and web sites for writing teachers in eLearn Magazine (2010).