WordPress: a Decade in the Making, an infographic

WordPress: a Decade in the Making, an infographic

WordPress a Decade in the Making, an infographic
What’s WordPress? If you have to ask, you’re missing out on one of the largest content management systems (CMS) in the world!
On May 27, 2003, WordPress was released by founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, and as of September 2013, there are 69,764,179 WordPress sites accounted for around the world! Over 17 percent of the websites in the world run on WordPress, or use a customized WordPress framework. Furthermore, WordPress is currently used by over 19.5 percent of the top 10 million websites, and 389 million people view more than 3.6 billion pages each month!
WordPress lovers access the platform in multiple ways, with the majority of users (98 percent) using the web, 31 percent using iOS devices, 30 percent using Android, 18 percent using Android tablets and 12 percent using desktop apps.
Did you know some of the biggest sites on the internet use WordPress? These big names include CNN, The New York Times, Forbes Magazine, TechCrunch, Reuters and eBay! Even more impressive? The 52 percent of the Top 100 Technorati blogs that run on WordPress — of which no other CMS comes close!

I’ve been reading Scott Berkun’s book The Year Without Pants which details his working life at Wordpress. The book reveals a thought-provoking collection of lore behind Wordpress and in particular, the day-to-day operations of a distributed volunteer team who built a technology that powers about 20% of the internet.
Scott embeds insightful gems about daily startup work life into his stories. My favorite so far is this one:
“Most people doubt online meetings can work, but they somehow overlook that most in-person meetings don’t work either.”
It’s a brilliant little dagger into the argument for in-person meetings. He continues,

How Wordpress Used VideoConferencing and IRC to Change the World