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In the future we will only need five computers says Matt MullenwegWordPress founder and open source advocate Matt Mullenweg dropped by the Memeburn offices today to speak about how WordPress went from a blogging platform to the CMS of choice for around 15% of the web. The 29-year-old entrepreneur, named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Media, started WordPress 10 years ago, mainly as a blogging platform for him and his friends. "I had to push it on a lot of people," he says. "I built blogs for my friends and basically forced them to use them." To get to the real roots of WordPress however, you have to go back a little further. Mullenweg had discovered an open-source platform called b2/cafelog, authored by Corsican Michel Valdrighi. When Mullenweg and Mike Little noticed that Valdrighi had gone offline for a time they decided to fork the code and WordPress was born. Read the full article on [[www.memeburn.com. About the authorStuart Thomas is a senior reporter at [[www.memeburn.com]]. |