Happy 10th birthday, WordPress! And same to you, ReadWrite! Here are a couple of “open letters” celebrating WordPress’s 10th: fanmail on RW; and a love letter from Matt Mullenweg to his baby, now all grown up.
10 years ago (according to my memory, and the rather more reliable Wikipedia):
- WordPress was Matt (and Mike Little)’s transformation of the open source b2/cafelog software.
- RW was Read/Write Web, which was Richard MacManus. It’s one of those blogs that was started by an excellent writer, who I sometimes selfishly wish was still the main writer, and mainly writing).
- I was living in Boston, and had no kids and no blogs.
Since then, WordPress has grown in ways too numerous to mention here and RW has long been a media property or suchlike. I am now in in the DC area, and have two kids, one of whom is nearly as old as WP and RWW.
Here’s to further good decades for WP, RW, me – and you, dear reader(s).