# WordPress is now a teenager!

*Published:* 2016-05-27
*Author:* Aditya Kane

> WordPress our favourite software turned 13 years old. We celebrated it's birthday with a special cake and a small party in the office.

Thirteen years ago in 2003, the first ever version of WordPress appeared, thanks to collaborative efforts of Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. It was forked from b2/cafelog.

Over the past 13 years from being regarded as mainly just a blogging software, it now powers over [26% of the web](https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all/y).

Today, our favourite CMS, turns a teenager and we celebrated it’s birthday with a special cake. The cake cutting honours went to Vaishali, Divyaraj and Dhaval, the youngest rtCampers around.

**Fun Fact:** Vaishali and Dhaval were of age 10 and Divyaraj was only 8 years old when WordPress was first released!

![WordPress-anniversary-cake](https://rtcamp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/WordPress-anniversary-cake.jpg?resize=600%2C521&quality=100&strip=all)

And that’s all of us posing for a group selfie.

![rtCampers-group-photo](https://rtcamp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/rtCampers-group-photo.jpg?resize=600%2C401&quality=100&strip=all)

If you want to read the WordPress origins story, read more about it on the [WordPress book](https://github.com/WordPress/book/blob/9b71f4cc1f7bd61f40c2b4e5f047c94a9bef6884/Content/Part%201/3-the-blogging-software-dilemma.md).

You may like to read [Matt’s blog post which started WordPress](https://ma.tt/2003/01/the-blogging-software-dilemma/)!

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