Happy birthday Drupal

Dries - January 15, 2005 - 10:25

Exactly four years ago, on January 15th 2001, I released Drupal 1.0.0. The following snippet is taken directly from the original announcement:

Today, drop.org announces the release of drupal 1.00 after an extensive period of testing. Drupal is a full-featured content management/discussion engine using Apache/PHP/MySQL and suitable to setup a news-driven community or portal site similar to kuro5hin.org and slashdot.org. Current features include discussion forums, web-based administration, theme support, an open submission queue, content management, a modularized design, PHP sessions, user management with access control and username/profanity/hostname filters, error logging, a public diary module, an affiliate site module, backend/headline generation (RSS/RDF) and much more.

Well, happy birthday Drupal!

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Happy 4th Birthday

sofiya - January 15, 2005 - 11:56

Happy 4th Birthday Drupal!

More power!

"If you build it, they will come." -- Field of Dreams

happy B Day!

bertboerland@ww... - January 15, 2005 - 12:45

happy B day to all of us!

It only seems like yesterday. Lets keep this feeling tomorrow.

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groets
bertb

wiki

bertboerland@ww... - January 16, 2005 - 15:03

just to show the contex of drupal, wiki 4 years old today
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groets
bertb

not the wiki

Gábor Hojtsy - January 16, 2005 - 17:09

Not the wiki itself, but the wikipedia is four years old.

From wikipedia: The Portland Pattern Repository was the first wiki, established by Ward Cunningham in 1995. He invented the wiki name and concept, and implemented the first wiki engine.

lines of code

moshe weitzman - January 15, 2005 - 13:20

the number of lines of code that were added to core by year. as you can see, we are growing slowly and steadily (at least thats my interpretation). from ax's cvs monitor site

Year  	Change
6,152
8,577
6,313
4,393
10,312
198

Well, hooray

Steve Dondley - January 15, 2005 - 13:43

I think he's a gosh-darned jolly good fellow, I tell ya. Hey, this is also Martin Luther King's birthday. He was a powerful civil rights leader here in the United States. Very fitting that Drupal should share the day with such a great communicator and powerful force for good.

Happy Birthday!

dantesca - January 15, 2005 - 17:36

Happy Fourth BIrthday and more power to you!!

May coding issues mysteriously fix themselves when you leave them
on the workbench at night along with a five-pack of the good stuff.

-Dante!
Shadowjournal.com

A day to celebrate

chromatic - January 15, 2005 - 18:00

A day to celebrate freedom!
Happy Birthday Drupal! Dries, you have a beautiful baby, or toddler i guess.

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I thought software years

MJoyce - January 27, 2005 - 23:01

I thought software years were x4 man years.

That would make Drupal 16, time to mature after a bright start.

Belated Best Wishes

rkendall - January 16, 2005 - 17:38

What can I say! Great work Dries, and everyone else.

I predict great things ahead!

For it's a jolly good fellow!

geokker - January 16, 2005 - 20:09

Well done everyone. Drupal is an excellent achievement and an open source success story.

Get going drupalians...

gkrishna - January 17, 2005 - 20:49

Get going drupalians... Happy birthday

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"GNU/Linux, nothing commercial about it"

Congradulations

takacst - January 20, 2005 - 12:29

I am very excited by the potential Drupal provides for the creation of virtual community networks through which grassroots social and economic initiatives can be realized. You may have initiated a worldwide revolution Dries.
Congradulations!
Ted Takacs

Huge congratulations to everyone who has contributed to building this brilliant set of tools, but above all to Dries.

Happy BELATED birthday

clancy@culturec... - February 5, 2005 - 15:42

And one to grow on!