By Dries on

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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sofiya commented

Happy 4th Birthday Drupal!

More power!

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

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bertboerland commented

happy B day to all of us!

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

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bertboerland commented

just to show the contex of drupal, wiki 4 years old today
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Gábor Hojtsy
he/him
Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary
commented

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.

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moshe weitzman commented

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
2000 	6,152
2001 	8,577
2002 	6,313
2003 	4,393
2004 	10,312
2005 	198
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Steve Dondley commented

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.

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dantesca commented

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

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freyquency commented

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

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MJoyce-1 commented

I thought software years were x4 man years.

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

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rkendall commented

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

I predict great things ahead!

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geokker commented

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

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gkrishna commented

Get going drupalians... Happy birthday

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takacst commented

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

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jibbajabba commented

A belated happy birthday to you, Drupal. Based on Moshe's metrics, 2004 certainly was a big year in terms of change to the Drupal Core. Onward and upward!

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Eric Scouten commented

Thanks all for a great toolset.

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clairem commented

Happy birthday, Drupal! And let's hope there are many more to celebrate.

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

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clancy@culturecat.net commented

And one to grow on!

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richard.e.morton commented

and thank-you so much for such a fantastic and configurable CMS which is sooo powerful it is the leader of the pack.

Richard
NaFoF - Multi Activity and Social Clubs with a website built with Drupal

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brianmeert commented

Well Drupal has me beat. At four I was still running around in Superman pajamas looking for new ways into the cookie jar. If only I had been developing social networks... ha ha.

Brian Meert
Helixium: Drupal Development, Consulting and Marketing