I downloaded WordPress the day it was released, on May 27, 2003. The web already had Movable Type, Blogger was free, and TypePad had the design crowd locked down, so when a two-developer fork of b2/cafelog showed up with a blog-focused mission and a funny name, I figured it was going to fade out by the end of the year. Twenty-three years later I am writing this post on that same piece of software, which now runs 43% of every website on the internet.
The road from there to here is one of the stranger stories in software history, and WordPress 7.0 is the release that finally feels like the destination the project has been pointing toward since 2003.
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