Forgotten Birthday

Somehow in the rush of all the development that’s been going on lately we forgot the birthday of our favorite baby, WordPress.com.

However Lorelle remembered and wrote a great post. It seems fitting that our birthday post should come from one of our bloggers!

I don’t think I can add a whole lot on top of her post, so here’s some Automattic and WordPress.com trivia:

• Donncha was the first employee
• I had never met him when I hired him
• The main blog has a registration date of 2006-07-20, about a month after Donncha started
• Some early testing of MU was done at wordpad.org
• Andy was the second employee, starting August 28th (ish)
• The first server that ran WordPress.com cost $82 a month
• We still have that server around, it hosts webstandards.org and themes.wordpress.net
• When we launched it was invite-only, we got a few thousand people through that system
• The early days were rough, some pretty major bugs and downtime
• WordPress.com opened to the public in December 2005
• But we got virtually no signups until January, I don’t remember why

Now for some stats! Don’t forget to compare these numbers from those about 3 months ago.

In the last 10 days, WordPress.com users have…

• Created 18,329 blogs
• Added 63,198 static pages
• Tagged 231,267 tags on posts
• Gotten 501,111 comments
• Written 416,602 posts
• Had 16,621,767 pageviews!

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