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==History== | ==History== | ||
| + | Drupal was started in 2000 at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder had set up a wireless internet connection to Snijder's ADSL modem, and were sharing it with 8 other students in the dormitory. Buytaert made a small news site with a built-in posting board for the students to share announcements and news over Snijder's modem. The software didn't become public until the day after Buytaert after college graduation, when he put it on the web so the students could all stay in contact with each other.[http://drupal.org/about/history] | ||
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| + | The original domain name for the site was drop.org, due to a typo when checking to see if dorp.org was available (dorp is the word for 'village' in Dutch). Upon release to the public, the audience and members of drop.org changed. Members began exploring new web technologies, and experimenting with these technologies in the software running in the back-end of the site. In January of 2001 Buytaert released the software the site was using under the name "Drupal," a twist on the Dutch word for "drop." Users have been contributing new features to the site ever since.[http://drupal.org/about/history] | ||
==Technical== | ==Technical== | ||
Revision as of 19:55, 12 October 2012
Drupal is a free online Open Source web content management system platform. Drupal can be used to create a wide array of webpages, from personal blogs to enterprise applications. The nature of the open source community surrounding the Drupal CMS allows users to access extra CMS features (called modules) that were created by developers in the Drupal community, as well as contribute to the array of features themselves by utilizing a Drupal developer account.[1]
As of October 12th, 2012, there were 18,627 modules, 21,153 developers, and 886,121 users worldwide using Drupal to power their sites.[2]
History
Drupal was started in 2000 at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder had set up a wireless internet connection to Snijder's ADSL modem, and were sharing it with 8 other students in the dormitory. Buytaert made a small news site with a built-in posting board for the students to share announcements and news over Snijder's modem. The software didn't become public until the day after Buytaert after college graduation, when he put it on the web so the students could all stay in contact with each other.[3]
The original domain name for the site was drop.org, due to a typo when checking to see if dorp.org was available (dorp is the word for 'village' in Dutch). Upon release to the public, the audience and members of drop.org changed. Members began exploring new web technologies, and experimenting with these technologies in the software running in the back-end of the site. In January of 2001 Buytaert released the software the site was using under the name "Drupal," a twist on the Dutch word for "drop." Users have been contributing new features to the site ever since.[4]
