R&D 01: WordPress History
About the History of WordPress
According to WordPress.org, "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 under the GPLv2. It is also the platform of choice for over 43% of all sites across the web."
About WordPress.org
According to The WordPress Foundation, "The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software."
About WordPress.com
According to WordPress.com, "We're a hosted version of the open source software, WordPress. Because when you have the freedom to create, express yourself, and earn money online, the impossible becomes business as usual."
Grand Summary
This page contains general information about WordPress as a whole; this page also contains specific information about WordPress.org and WordPress.com.