WordPress History

WordPress was released on May 27, 2003 by its founders Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg.

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Successor of b2/cafelog

The b2/cafelog, a blogging tool was launched in 2001 by a French programmer Michel Valdrighi.

The programming language used to develop b2 was PHP along with MySQL. It was specifically designed to write blogs.

The major innovation in b2 was generating a page dynamically from the contents of MySQL database instead of static web pages.

It also made use of MySQL for database which provides a search option among the blogs present in the database.

It was licensed under GPL which made its source-code open for all.