WordPress is a free and open-source content management system for building websites and blogs. It was released in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, who created it as a fork of an older blogging program called b2/cafelog. It is written in PHP, licensed under the GNU General Public License, and its look and features can be extended with themes and plugins. Over the years it grew from a blogging tool into a system used for all kinds of websites, from small personal sites to large news organizations. WordPress powers a very large share of all websites. The company Automattic, which Mullenweg founded, runs the hosted service WordPress.com.
Before and after
- April 2003Publication of The Da Vinci Code
- 14 April 2003The Human Genome Project is declared complete
- 24 April 2003Creation of Windows Server 2003
- 9 May 2003Launch of Hayabusa
- 27 May 2003Release of WordPress
- 29 May 2003Publication of The Kite Runner
- 30 May 2003Release of Indonesian Wikipedia
- 2 June 2003Launch of Mars Express
- 6 June 2003Release of Latvian Wikipedia
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 21st century.