`drupal in the history of mankind` by orest androshchuk
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DRUPAL
Drupal turned fifteen on January 15, 2016.
BEFORE DRUPAL
In 2001 only 7 percent of the world's population
had internet access. The price of connection was
very expensive at the time.
THE YOUNG MENACE
“At the time I lived in a really tiny room with just a
desk, a bed, a sink, and a microwave.”
MISSION POSSIBLE
“We drilled holes in the floor to connect people
below and at night we'd run wires to the people
next door.”
MESSAGE BOARD
“So we needed a private message board. If the beta
ADSL connection dropped, or if I turned on the
microwave and the wireless disconnected, I'd post a
message on our intranet letting people know.”
dorp.org
“I had intended to register “dorp.org”, as dorp is the Dutch word
for village and seemed a fitting name for our small online
community. I accidentally typed 'drop.org'; it was available so I
bought it instead. Drupal was then word play based on the Dutch
word “druppel”, which means drop.”
DRUPAL TIMELINE
DRUPAL 2.0watchdog.module
DRUPAL 3.0watchdog.module
DRUPAL 4.0
taxonomy.module
FIRST DRUPALCON
“I helped organize the first conference in
Antwerp, and I was completely flabbergasted that
30-40 people showed up!”
DRUPAL 4.7
“Drupal 4.7 will go down in history. It was really
tough on me personally to push that release out.
That's when the Form API was born, and I
committed it late in the game. It took ages to
flush out the bugs, convert modules, and get
documentation written. That was a really hard
release.”
DRUPAL 5.0
The installer became one of the biggest features
in Drupal 5.
DRUPAL 6.0
DRUPAL 7.0
DRUPAL 8.0
Acquia started in 2007.
The Acquia Network combines various support
and cloud services.
Acquia Search, New Relic (performance
monitoring), heartbeat monitoring, Mollom, etc.
Mollom is a web service that helps website
owners moderate their websites by filtering out
spam.
Currently Mollom is used by about 60,000
websites on which we've filtered nearly 10 billion
spam messages.
COMMUNITY
Do you see yourself telling “Drupal
stories” to your grandkids?
Yes. The entire story of Drupal and its community is fascinating.
Little did I know when I started a message board in my small
student dorm in Antwerp, that it would grew into a worldwide
phenomena built by thousands of people and used by millions,
including many of the world’s governments and some of the
largest media organizations. At the same time, I believe that
we’re only getting started, and that we have so much left to
accomplish it is too early to start telling stories.
