Matt Mullenweg: The Young Man Who Made It Easy to Publish on the Web
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WordPress is the backbone of one-quarter of the World Wide Web's sites and home to more than 70 million blogs. This is the story of how Matt Mullenweg, a Houston teenager who had never taken a computer course and who didn't have any connections in Silicon Valley, launched this software program that's now an essential part of the Internet. "Every good thing that has happened in my life," says Mullenweg, "was because I gave something away first, be it time, money, or code. It's just good karma."
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Matt Mullenweg
The Young Man Who Made it Easy to Publish on the Web
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Table of Contents
I was fascinated by technology
Where did blogs come from?
Matt starts blogging
b2 blogging software
Something unexpected happens
This is the course of action I'd like to go in
Work on WordPress
The first version of WordPress appears
Content management system
WordPress.com
The next few years
Today
What happened to...?
Interesting links
About the author
More books by the author
It’s time for a party,
19-year-old college student Matt Mullenweg hooted as he released the first version of his new blogging software in May of 2003.
Though only a few people used it at first, WordPress would eventually become one of the world’s most important Internet programs. Today, more than 74 million websites in more than 120 languages, as well as a majority of the world’s top 100 blogs, run on the software that Matt and his colleagues started creating that year.
How did a teenager who had never taken a computer course, who didn’t have any connections in Silicon Valley, and who was not much more than a beginning blogger himself, appear seemingly out of