Happy sixth birthday Drupal
Today, six years ago, Drupal 1.0.0 was released! The following snippet is taken directly from the original announcement:
Today, drop.org announces the release of drupal 1.00 after an extensive period of testing. Drupal is a full-featured content management/discussion engine using Apache/PHP/MySQL and suitable to setup a news-driven community or portal site similar to kuro5hin.org and slashdot.org. Current features include discussion forums, web-based administration, theme support, an open submission queue, content management, a modularized design, PHP sessions, user management with access control and username/profanity/hostname filters, error logging, a public diary module, an affiliate site module, backend/headline generation (RSS/RDF) and much more.
To celebrate the event, Karlijn and I made you some cookies:
Making of
Step 1: buy the tools and the ingredients to make the cookies of your choice. Could be peanut butter cookies, oatmeal cookies or sugar cookies as long there is room for custom frosting.
Step 2: unpack the ingredients.
Step 3: mix all the ingredients as you would normally do.
Step 4: prepare the cookie dough.
Step 5: bend a metal ring so it takes the shape of Druplicon (the Drupal logo).
Step 6: cut Druplicons in dough using our Druplicon cookie cutter.
Step 7: take out the Druplicon shaped dough.
Step 8: put the Druplicon dough in the oven. That's my "DrupalCon Brussels" t-shirt reflecting in the oven's cover glass.
Step 9: take the cookies out of the oven.
Step 10: mix the frosting with blue food coloring.
Step 11: dip the cookies into the frosting.
Step 12: dip the cookies in the frosting.
Step 13: that's it! Happy birthday Drupal!
Happy 6th Birthday Drupal!
Thank you so much for the hard work you have done Dries. It really is appreciated by all in the community. Still hoping of a birthday present of the 5.0 release today ...
If only we could download a cookie they do look good. :)
January 15, 2007 - 09:34We got the present we were all looking for. :D
January 15, 2007 - 15:51Happy Bday Drupal! You are growing up fast and have been very good to us. Good Druplicon, you deserve a cookie!
What will Dries be backing next? And I don't mean the Druplicon shaped Oliebollen in one year but between now and 15/1/07?
January 15, 2007 - 10:30Haha Bert, and more important, does the color of the icing reveal something more or does the Druplicon needs to change color then?
A proud uncle!
January 17, 2007 - 11:58Happy Birthday from me too to you and the Drupal community and thank you for the nice cookie pics. They look very tasty.
Do we get a big pizza next year? :-)
January 15, 2007 - 10:52Happy Birthday Drupal! Dires fantastic work over these years. It is really growing nicely. When I turned 6 I started taking Spanish classes - I think Drupal is going to be in a great place this year to be a fluent multilingual system and ready for what every language someone wants to through at it :)
January 15, 2007 - 12:59Happy Birthday + New Year + Well done Dries and all the developers involved. It was a long and difficult road. But well worth it.
Enjoy the cookies. :)
January 15, 2007 - 13:00Waar zijn die lekker Drupal-koekjes te verkrijgen? Ze zien er heerlijk uit -- wil ze wel eens proeven ...
January 15, 2007 - 13:24Happy Birthday Drupal! :)
Keep up the good work. Well done Dries!
January 15, 2007 - 13:29You guys are awesome. :)
January 15, 2007 - 14:11You ain't see nothing yet! Just warming up (the cookies). :-)
January 15, 2007 - 14:36Can't wait to see 6.0.
Too bad my browser has cookies disabled. ;-)
January 15, 2007 - 16:27Hahaha, that was pretty good -hgn-. Zinger!
January 15, 2007 - 21:41Bending the metal ring to a Druplicon shape is just brilliant . ;)
January 15, 2007 - 16:50I found it curious that Drupal 4.0 was out in 2002. Dries, do you remember the timeline for when Drupal 2.0 and 3.0 were released?
January 15, 2007 - 17:54Happy Birthday! I love you, Drupal!
January 15, 2007 - 18:51Happy B'day Drupal!
You have been magic to work with!
Thanks for the lovely ride!
January 15, 2007 - 18:59Thanks for your great invention and the recipe.
January 15, 2007 - 20:32Oh, that is so cute!!!
Thank you Dries! Thank you Karlijn! For the cookies and all the hard work that went into making these cookies and Drupal!
Love the step by step instructions! Wish there was more pictures in the Drupal documentation... he he he
But why low-fat butter?
Caroline
January 15, 2007 - 21:47A big THANKS to Dries and Karlijn for the delicious cookies! Wow, they were great ... I mean, they LOOK great! :)
And Dries - thanks for all the time, effort, and energy spent on Drupal.
January 16, 2007 - 02:24A cake, cookies ... what is the surprise going to be the next year? A Drupal baby?
Happy birthday!
January 16, 2007 - 04:31Thank you Dries for creating a such a brilliant CMS sharing it with the world. Thank you to all the developers and members of the community that have made this happen.
Looking forward to the bright future ahead!
January 16, 2007 - 09:51Happy birthday Drupal :)
January 16, 2007 - 10:58Happy Birthday Drupal!
Thank you Dries and the whole Drupal crew for another great release.
January 16, 2007 - 13:14Wanneer moet ik die koekjes juist komen opeten ? ;)
January 16, 2007 - 16:02Happy Birthday Drupal !
January 16, 2007 - 20:23hmmm, i'm hungry now :-D
Thank you for Drupal, Dries! As a new web developer, your great work makes it a million times easier for me!
January 16, 2007 - 21:24Congratulations and happy birthday to Dries, Karlijn, and all of us.
Side note: I thought the bilingual labels in Canada (English and French) are peculiar, but now that I see FOUR languages on the blue coloring bottle, I am floored ...
January 17, 2007 - 15:08Khalid, some products in Europe carry up to a dozen languages, if they are sold in many countries. Delhaize (supermarket chain) has this for its own products. :)
January 18, 2007 - 07:01Drupal, where have you been all my life?
I've been researching CMSs for 6 months now looking to use it for our college student association site. I looked at Xoops, Joomla, and could find anything that was good/smart/flexible enough without having to start coding a bunch of php. I even started learning Ruby on Rails to just start from scratch.
Then I came across an article about the CMS awards on the xoops site. It said that Joomla won by a tie breaker over Drupal. Somehow this new possibility escaped me til now, and I loving it! Good work, and I think you all should have won hands down (not sure if they were looking at 5.0).
Frank Carey
January 17, 2007 - 17:47Happy Birthday Drupal. You have sure made some great progress. Those cookies look delicious.
January 19, 2007 - 07:17Happy Birthday Drupal. Dries, excellent work, and thanks.
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