A Look Back at Eight Years of WordPress

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A Look Back at Eight Years of WordPress
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More than 45 million websites are powered by WordPress or WordPress.com -- including Mashable. In celebration of WordPress's eight birthday, we wanted to take a look at how the project and its user interface has evolved over the years.

To Matt, Mike and the hundreds (if not thousands) of volunteers that have helped make the project what it is, we salute you!

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Series Supported by Rackspace

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The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. No more worrying about web hosting uptime. No more spending your time, energy and resources trying to stay on top of things like patching, updating, monitoring, backing up data and the like. Learn why.

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