Drupal is one of the leading free and open-source content-management frameworks. Drupal overcome a long and painful path. We will therefore guide you through the early beginnings of Drupal and present you how everything started.

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HISTORY OF
DRUPAL
Matic Cretnik
Agiledrop

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Drupal
One of the leading free and open-source
content-management framework
It provides a back-end framework for at
least 2.2% of all Web sites worldwide
It evolved from versions 1.0 to 8.0

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College years
In a year 2000 Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder,
two students on the University of Antwerp,
needed an internet connection
They set up a wireless bridge between their
dorms
Dries, still known as founder, started a small news
site with a web board, where he and his friends
could talk about where they would meet

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Until Dries graduated, the software they had built was
nameless
They wished to stay in touch, so the internal site had to be
put online
When looking for the right domain name, Dries
considered »dorp.org«, as a Dutch for village. He mistyped
it into »drop« and it stucked
In January 2001 that Dries decided to release the software
behind drop.org and therefore Drupal became an open
source project

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Drupal 1.0
The first version of Drupal was based on Slash, a modular
CMS, and Scoop
There were 18 core modules
No menu router
The code had to be input into one of the seven hooks in
the modules
To modify database, you imported an SQL file
Themes were already in the core
Any user could become a contributor

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Drupal 2.0
The second version of Drupal was released on 15. 3 2001
One major improvement-translation feature
To have other language users had to manually edit the configuration
file and SQL database
Other additions in this version, like user ratings, sections for stories, a
user permission system and the ability to rewrite a comment

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Drupal 3.0
On third version, everything was based on nodes
They became a primary unit for the content
All types of content (book, story, forum, diary, blog) existed as a node and
were managed by node module. Only comments were not nodes
But it wasn't until ten years later that nodes became the basics for the mobile
web and that web resolved less and less around pages