20 years of WordPress

It feels hard for me to believe, but today is the 20th anniversary of the first release of WordPress (you can see the initial announcement here). The story of WordPress actually began earlier, with a project called b2/cafelog in 2001. It was a similar product that was essentially abandoned by its creators, so Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little took over development, renamed it WordPress, and released it on May 27, 2003.

I find it amazing that for everyone on our team other than me, WordPress has been around for more than half of their lifetime.