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Just a senior citizen now but an early netizen who fondly recalls the good old days before AOL opened the internet to the masses, when we “surfed” the web with a text browser called Lynx, searched with Archie and Vernoica, did email with Pine and coded with vi. I still dabble with web design, although it has become essentially too complicated for one person to be competent at everything that’s involved these days. Just look at how many teams it takes to keep developing WordPress now. Unfortunately, I never got rich at my day job and haven’t been able to retire so I could spend more time playing with WordPress and other website tools.

WordPress Origin Story

I got involved with WordPress way back in the the pre-release beta days. I even submitted a few PHP code corrections that were accepted. I was, and still am, just a web design hobbyist (a/k/a tyro), doing websites like some people play golf, I suppose. As I recall, there was some competition at the time between Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress and Dean Allen’s TextPattern. Kind of like the early OS competition between CP/M and DOS. Bill became king in the OS world, as did Matt in the CMS world. Maybe not a fair comparison; Matt’s a much better coder. It has been interesting to watch the development and growth of WordPress over these many years.

  • Member Since: March 7th, 2004
  • Location: Kansas
  • Website: harpshot.com
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