Wikipedia is a website in which people can collaborate on providing information of certain topics. Anyone can edit the information, and others can peer review it. Thinkcycle is a platform that allows engineers, designers, etc. to collaborate on design projects. These sites allow people to cooperate with one another to create an informed report and to create elaborate projects. Overall, both websites are able to bring together people to cooperate to create the best report/project that they can.
The setting of "Marigolds" is during the depression or the 30s. You know this because the story says, "The depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us" and "the black workers of rural Maryland had always been depressed".
