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Surfaces of insulating single crystals (like Si at and below room temperature) provide perfect templates for ordered arrays of atomic wires, which in many cases exhibit one-dimensional (1D) properties. The physics in these quasi-one-dimensional systems is quite intriguing and gives rise to the observation of new phenomena such as spin and charge order. Here we present a short overview, concentrating...