Happy Birthday Drupal, you are eight

By Amazon on 15 Jan 2009 at 18:59 UTC

Drupal 8th Birthday Eight years ago today Drupal 1.0.0 was released. It's been a big year for Drupal, another big release with Drupal 6, a lot of awards, and a lot of recognition. The project has had some notable departures, promotions, and the addition of many great contributors and users. Happy Birthday to the Drupal project and its amazing community.

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Congratulations from Germany

AlMiesel commented 16 January 2009 at 08:12

Keep on rocking!!!!!!!!

Wonder what will happen when you are grown up (18 years old), ohhhh my god!!!

drupalgermany.com - misgin.com - meyermisginmedia.com
Alexander Misgin

A very Happy Birthday to You

vkr11 commented 17 January 2009 at 01:03

And the maturity does show in the code. I love the D6 and how we are approaching the D7 version of the software.

- Victor
Search Drupal.org | Lamingo | Tax India | Drupal Jobs | FPGA

Happy Birthday

BioALIEN commented 21 January 2009 at 02:23

The great thing is, D7 is taking its time to fully mature before release. The sad thing is, I wish we were at D8 so we can all celebrate birthdays easier ;)

Great job to all involved. Up up and away!

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Dee
iScene.eu :: UK Drupal Consultancy

Congratulations from Sweden!

MiMe commented 16 January 2009 at 08:21

Wow, eight alread?!Another birthday to celebrate, great work everyone!

/Mike

Owner of Absolutely free pictures, a free pictures resource.

Congratulations from USA and Ukraine!

webstylemedia commented 16 January 2009 at 08:29

Happy Birthday Drupal!

In last 2 years you become a good source of profit in our business!

Thank you!

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Dmitry Yeskin
President of Web Style Media, LLC
Internet Marketing and Internet Advertising Agency

Happy Birthday Drupal!Happy

jinlong commented 16 January 2009 at 08:35

Happy Birthday Drupal!Happy Birthday Drupal!Happy Birthday Drupal!~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Great news! Congratulations

thomjjames commented 16 January 2009 at 08:39

Great news!

Congratulations to everyone who has been involved with the project over the 8 years!!

Tom
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Happy Birthday

siliconmeadow commented 16 January 2009 at 08:48

I've never sung happy birthday to a piece of software before, but you deserve it and more. Without Drupal, I'd have dropped out of website building and perhaps the IT industry altogether three years ago.

So, come on over to my place for some cake and ice cream. I'll hire a clown and everything!

xxxx

Wishing all the best for drupal and all drupal community

wwam commented 16 January 2009 at 09:10

Wishing all the best for drupal and all drupal community from Thailand.
Keep it going.

Happy Birthday

themegarden.org commented 16 January 2009 at 10:56

Happy Birthday Drupal !!!
Congratulations to Drupal community and to Dries.

It's amazing what one great community can create in eight years.
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Best Whishes from India

alakesh commented 16 January 2009 at 11:01

Congratulations to all of you-end users,drupal community and organization.

Hope to see more of DRUPAL..
Will be in our prayers....

Congratulations from Russia

drq commented 16 January 2009 at 11:02

Subj. From our community at www.drupal.ru

Happy Birthday from Brazil!

aleagi commented 16 January 2009 at 11:05

Thanks you guys for making a really good software!

Drupal really Rox! @=]

Best Regards from Brazil,
Aleagi

Luiz Gustavo Aleagi Nunes `°º¤ø,¸¸,
http://aleagi.com | http://eopen.com.br
Desenvolvedor Drupal | Padrões W3C | Acessibilidade
¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°` Nosce te ipsum...¸,ø¤º°``°º¤ø,¸¸,

8 and going strong..

yasheshb commented 16 January 2009 at 11:26

Happy birthday to well wishers, community and Drupalicon :).

Yashesh Bhatia
yasheshb@venuslabs.co.in
http://venuslabs.co.in

Yashesh Bhatia

Congratulations from Indonesia

awank commented 16 January 2009 at 12:11

happy birthday drupal........!!!!!! wish u all the best!!!!

keep it going bro...

A CALL: I'd love to see some

saltcod commented 16 January 2009 at 12:26

A CALL:

I'd love to see some of the founders (or Dries) write a short post on Drupal's history and development. Where did the ideas come from? Where did the node thing arise? Multi-blog site abilities......etc......

Lets have some "this is where Drupal came from" discussion.

Thanks!

http://drupal.org/node/769. g

gpk commented 16 January 2009 at 18:18

http://drupal.org/node/769.

gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk

Drupal Birthday Poem

mrbert commented 16 January 2009 at 12:29

You've made me smile when no one was there to
You made me laugh when I didn't want to
You gave me what money could not buy
You gave me light when I was in my darkest

You've made me know that it doesn't cost a thing to have the best in the world

That's why on your special day I'm happy to be around to say

Happy Birthday

Frank Edwin | steve ababio

Drupal rocks!!

phdhiren commented 16 January 2009 at 12:31

Drupal rocks!!

Happy Birthday Drupal !
Congratulations to all community

Congrats!!!

PepeMty commented 16 January 2009 at 12:48

Warm regards from sunny México!
Pepe
:-)

Happy Birthday Drupal! From Pakistan

tanzeel commented 16 January 2009 at 13:41

Congratulation all the contributors, users and visitors of GR88888888888 drupal.

Thanks & Regards: Tanzeel ghumman

Thank you,
Tanzeel

Happy Birthday Drupal

droshani commented 16 January 2009 at 14:19

All I can say for each year in 8 languages I know, that

1.Happy Birthday
2. Grattis på födelsedagen
تولدت مبارك3 .
ڕۆژی له‌دایك بونت پیرۆز بێت4.
5. Zarújhit píroz
6. Gratulerer med dagen!
7. Rojbuna te piroz be!
8. Feliz Cumplea–os!

"We must become the change we want to see" [quote: Mahatma Gandhi]

Congratulations from Egypt!

owahab commented 16 January 2009 at 15:48

And by the way, a small correction:
3. عيد ميلاد سعيد

no Dutch?

seutje commented 19 January 2009 at 13:18

it almost made me cry to see you didn't add Dutch :(

9. Gelukkige verjaardag!

feel like I should bake a cake and send it to Dries :x

En Català :)

markus_petrux commented 20 January 2009 at 15:53

10. Feliç aniversari!

Doubt is the beginning, not the end of wisdom.

Digg it!

carnevaledesign commented 16 January 2009 at 14:25

http://digg.com/software/Happy_Birthday_Drupal_you_are_eight

Happy birthday Drupal!

Congratulations from IRAN

mahmood commented 16 January 2009 at 14:36

Dr Dries Buytaert
Thanks you for making a really good software!

Happy birhtday from Colombia

rodri3k commented 16 January 2009 at 15:10

Happy birhtday No 8 and we hope many more years.

Thanks for exist

Birthday wishes from India

Shyamala commented 16 January 2009 at 15:27

Happy Birthday Drupal!

From India!

Shyamala
Technology Head - Drupal Competency Center
Netlink Technologies Ltd.
http://shyamala-drupal.blogspot.com/

Shyamala
http://www.unimitysolutions.com

Happy Birthday From Malaysia

dnaromance commented 16 January 2009 at 15:35

Happy 8niversary Drupal!

It should be Happy Drupal Day!

It's about Drupal, it's about the community!

Congratulations everyone in the community and everyone using Drupal!

Best regards,
kailoon

So, is there any chance of

coreyp_1 commented 16 January 2009 at 15:42

So, is there any chance of us mortals ever being able to try out "historical" versions of Drupal... if only for fun?

The earliest I could find is 4.5.0.

- Corey

Drupal 3.0

tom_o_t commented 16 January 2009 at 15:53

Happy birthday!

I found this link with a working link to the Drupal 3.0 download: http://web.archive.org/web/20011214140315/www.drop.org/node.php?id=411 in a discussion of Drupal 1.0 (http://drupal.org/node/216092)

We aim towards easy installation, excessive configuration and fine-grained maintenance capabilities.

I'd love to find Drupal 1.0 somewhere...

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http://www.thomasturnbull.com
http://twitter.com/thomasturnbull

CVS

gpk commented 16 January 2009 at 18:17

CVS http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/drupal/ seems to go back to May 18, 2000, but the first tagged release appears to be 3.0.0. If you have a CVS client and can figure out the dates/revisions from CHANGELOG.txt you might be able to reconstruct any version. This is a great timeline: http://drupal.org/files/issues/Drupal%20Release%20Timeline.png

gpk
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Here is the tarball from May

David_Rothstein commented 18 January 2009 at 19:03

Here is the tarball from May 18, 2000 (actually this is well before Drupal 1.0 was released):
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/drupal/drop.tar.gz?revision=1.1.1...

I found the link to it in this forum post:
http://drupal.org/node/316576

Be careful, though -- the tarball unpacks all its files in the current working directory, so you might want to create a temporary folder for it and move the tarball there before unpacking it.

wow! I gotta take a look!

dami commented 18 January 2009 at 19:39

wow! I gotta take a look!

Happy Birthday Drupal from Peekskill NY USA

twood commented 16 January 2009 at 15:52

Hey there Drupal, you cool Capricorn...
We love you and many happy returns!!!

Druuuu.....pal !!!!

nova1975 commented 16 January 2009 at 15:53

Happy birthday....
Happy birthday....
Happy birthday....

Gratulerer med dagen Drupal!

JohnFilipstad

Norwegian Bokmål

Oslo

commented 16 January 2009 at 16:07

Happy Birthday Drupal!

From the Norwegian community
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_{hvor oversettere, brukere, utviklere og leverandører av Drupal i Norge samles}

Drupal release timeline

dami commented 16 January 2009 at 16:26

Happy birthday!

What a timing. I just posted a "Drupal Release Timeline" on my blog yesterday.
It's been submitted it to doc issue queue #114846: Drupal release timeline

Happy Birthday from Sunny Spain

Abilnet commented 16 January 2009 at 17:24

Happy Birthday from Sunny Spain, I'm happy I found Drupal!

Happy Birthday from Vietnam!

drupal.vn commented 16 January 2009 at 21:11

Happy Birthday Drupal !

Chúc Mừng Sinh Nhật !

Happy Birthday from KENYA AND TANZANIA

JohnLinux commented 16 January 2009 at 21:26

Best wishes and may you grow to be toothless but full on knowledge and history making

--
www.whereis.co.ke

Happy Birthday from all of the Drupalers in California!!!

drfuzetto commented 17 January 2009 at 00:58

Happy Birthday from all of the Drupalers in California!!!

Deborah Fuzetto

Happy birthday!!

drupaloSa commented 17 January 2009 at 01:02

Happy birthday Drupal! Where is the birthday cake :)
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Happy Birthday from Indonesia

fxekobudi commented 17 January 2009 at 02:05

Happy birthday Drupal, the best CMS open source. Thanks for all share n love

cumpleaños feliz

fcedillo commented 17 January 2009 at 02:17

Cumpleañoz Feliz a Drupal que nos acoge con tanto cariño.
Gracias Drupal y los Best Wishes :D

I too love Drupal. And

Bairnsfather commented 17 January 2009 at 03:08

I too love Drupal.

And it's not because I am one of many whos name sounds so close to it.

Drupal is Drew's pal!

congrats Drupal... best

steveadamo commented 17 January 2009 at 05:13

congrats Drupal... best wishes for another 8 years! :)

Happy Birthday

DrupalDummy-1 commented 17 January 2009 at 15:22

Happy birthday Drupal and happy long liife to you!

Happy Birthday Drupal!

alcroito commented 17 January 2009 at 18:34

Cheers for Drupal!

Happy birthday Drupal.

ssace commented 17 January 2009 at 23:39

Happy birthday Drupal. Amazing, the progress.

Happy birthday! I wish you

Fred125 commented 19 January 2009 at 09:32

Happy birthday! I wish you every success!

Congrtulation from

yogaaum.com commented 18 January 2009 at 13:45

Congrtulation from Thailand.
ยินดีด้วยสำหรับการครบรอบปีที่ 8

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YogaAum / www.yogaaum.com
Thailand Yoga Shop & Community

Yeah!!!!

OsterD commented 18 January 2009 at 19:38

A few more years (10!!!!) and our child will be an adult!!!!!
This is great!!!! Happy birthday my child!!!!

David Oster aka George Pasparakis
http://www.odphotography.com
http://www.ist.edu.gr

Almost 8 Years and yet happy!

betarobot commented 19 January 2009 at 00:02

I'm almost 8 years with Drupal and yet quite happy with it. Kudos and congrats to Drupal and Drupal community!!!

_{Drupal Sites Directory | my photoblog}

Cheers,
Andrey

Free and Premium Drupal Themes | Drupal Sites Showcase. Add yours! | My Blog

Joyeux anniversaire !

Anonymous (not verified) commented 20 January 2009 at 01:17

Just noticed there was no french yet :)

Joyeux anniversaire Drupal !
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fr: www.couzinhub.com

Belated Birthday Wishes to

nvl.sateesh commented 20 January 2009 at 02:45

Belated Birthday Wishes to you Drupal !!!

Walking the Path
http://nvlonline.blogspot.com

Sateesh Nutulapati
Devops Solutions Architect at New Target, Inc.

Here it is in Telugu....

nvl.sateesh commented 20 January 2009 at 02:46

Drupal ku Janmadina Subhakankshalu !!!

Telugu, for those who don't know, is a South Indian language which is my mother tongue :-)

Walking the Path
http://nvlonline.blogspot.com

Sateesh Nutulapati
Devops Solutions Architect at New Target, Inc.

Happy Birthday Drupal

amitshah.in commented 20 January 2009 at 04:58

Happy Birthday Drupal!
Keep on rocking!!!!!!!!!

With Best Regards,

Amit Shah
http://www.amitshah.in
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shahamitj

Congratulation from Indonesia

roemasa commented 20 January 2009 at 06:31

Congratulations to all end users, drupal community and organization. Wish you all the best.

Jafar Soddik

http://drublog.com

you got a good thing going

radj commented 20 January 2009 at 06:34

Keep it up, D.

May this achievement inspire others. ^_^

Thy beauty, size, and years,

minesota commented 20 January 2009 at 13:08

Thy beauty, size, and years, and wit; 
No age could furnish out a pair

A very, very happy and prosperous Bday !!

Long life Drupal! A very

cssdru commented 20 January 2009 at 23:05

Long life Drupal!

A very happy birthday. Greetings!

Designing Drupal
www.azridesign.com

drupal :°D

ikarusweb commented 21 January 2009 at 09:43

happy birthday drupal :)

ikarusweb

happy birthday... for the

q8doc commented 22 January 2009 at 21:07

happy birthday... for the best

Congratulation from Jakarta, Indonesia

anomtea commented 22 January 2009 at 23:35

I just use drupal for the past few month and I found that this is the best CMS I've ever known
Thank you for everyone!. Congratulation and Happy Birthday to you!

Developer of www.raybachtiar.com