“Our mission: democratize publishing. the freedom to build. the freedom to change. the freedom to share our story. WordPress started in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of b2/cafelog. The need for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system was clear even then. Today, WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL, and licensed […]“
Source: About – WordPress.org
WordPress is now 21 years old!
This is the platform that inspired me to start writing, blogging, learning to code, a content management system to organize it all. This then turned into looking for systems for life and organizing everything around me to make life better.
“Socrates once said that “a life unexamined is a life unfulfilled.” WordPress allowed the average person to examine life and share those thoughts with the world. I hope that blogging never goes away because I truly miss the freedom of the internet the way it was before it was destroyed by social media.
David Daniels has been writing at DavidDaniels.com since 2001. Download the free life planning workbook, Write Open Act, to start mapping the gap for yourself.