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    Matt Mullenweg: The Young Man Who Made It Easy to Publish on the Web
    Matt Mullenweg: The Young Man Who Made It Easy to Publish on the Web
    Matt Mullenweg: The Young Man Who Made It Easy to Publish on the Web
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    Matt Mullenweg: The Young Man Who Made It Easy to Publish on the Web

    By David Schardt

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    WordPress is the backbone of one-quarter of the World Wide Web's sites and home to more than 70 million blogs. This is the story of how Matt Mullenweg, a Houston teenager who had never taken a computer course and who didn't have any connections in Silicon Valley, launched this software program that's now an essential part of the Internet. "Every good thing that has happened in my life," says Mullenweg, "was because I gave something away first, be it time, money, or code. It's just good karma."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Schardt
    Release dateJan 2, 2015
    ISBN9781310855696
    Matt Mullenweg: The Young Man Who Made It Easy to Publish on the Web

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      Matt Mullenweg - David Schardt

      Matt Mullenweg

      The Young Man Who Made it Easy to Publish on the Web

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      David Schardt

      Copyright 2015 David Schardt

      Smashwords Edition

      Thank you for downloading this ebook. This book remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be redistributed to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy from their favorite authorized retailer. Thank you for supporting the hard work of authors.

      Table of Contents

      I was fascinated by technology

      Where did blogs come from?

      Matt starts blogging

      b2 blogging software

      Something unexpected happens

      This is the course of action I'd like to go in

      Work on WordPress

      The first version of WordPress appears

      Content management system

      WordPress.com

      The next few years

      Today

      What happened to...?

      Interesting links

      About the author

      More books by the author

      It’s time for a party, 19-year-old college student Matt Mullenweg hooted as he released the first version of his new blogging software in May of 2003.

      Though only a few people used it at first, WordPress would eventually become one of the world’s most important Internet programs. Today, more than 74 million websites in more than 120 languages, as well as a majority of the world’s top 100 blogs, run on the software that Matt and his colleagues started creating that year.

      How did a teenager who had never taken a computer course, who didn’t have any connections in Silicon Valley, and who was not much more than a beginning blogger himself, appear seemingly out of

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