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our mission: democratize publishing the freedom to build. the freedom to change. the freedom to share. our story WordPress started in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of b2/cafelog. The need for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system was clear even then. Today, WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL, and licensed […]

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URL: wordpress.org/about
Title: About – WordPress.org
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Description: our mission: democratize publishing the freedom to build. the freedom to change. the freedom to share. our story WordPress started in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of b2/cafelog. The need for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system was clear even then. Today, WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL, and licensed […]
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