Simon D reminded me that it is now nine years since my fate­ful com­ment on Matt’s blog that kicked off this whole WordPress thing!

Nine years ago today @mikelittlezed1 floated an idea which even­tu­ally became WordPress. #thanksmike http://t.co/teYbVHX8

Wed­nes­day, 25 Janu­ary 2012 10:52 via Fire­fox Share (alpha)ReplyRetweetFavor­ite

@simond

Simon Dick­son

WordPress is really shap­ing up, and is an ever­more stable and func­tional CMS plat­form. The stat­ist­ics con­tinue to be aston­ish­ing, with more than 70 mil­lion sites around the world. That’s nearly 16% of the web!

WordPress is sup­port­ing a whole industry of WordPress experts, includ­ing me: I’m just start­ing my fourth year as an inde­pend­ent WordPress spe­cial­ist.

Praise must go as usual to the fant­astic com­munity around WordPress, the sin­gu­lar vis­ion of Matt Mul­len­weg, and the awe­some power of the GNU GPL open source license.

With ver­sion 3.4 cur­rently in the mak­ing, I pre­dict it will be another great year for WordPress.