Some Drupal history
It all started in 1999 when the founder, Dries Buytaert, began working on a simple website that incorporated a message board software application while he was an undergraduate at the University of Antwerp. For the next 2 years, he and a small group of friends used and developed the as yet unnamed application. In January 2001, they named their creation Drupal, open sourced it, and started the Drupal.org community site.
The rest, as they say, is history. The community continues to grow at an ever-increasing rate and the attendance figures at the official Drupalcon conferences worldwide are testament to the developer community's interest.
Language choice
Drupal is written in the open source scripting language PHP.
Because of PHP's ...
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