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WordPress
Founder: Matt Mullenweg
Founded: 2002
Mullenweg was a 19 year old freshman at the University of Houston when he developed WordPress, back in 2002.
WordPress has become the blogging service that most serious bloggers turn to. In fact this site has a lot to thank Matt for as well. WordPress is currently used by 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites and has been downloaded almost 13 million times.
WordPress is continuously growing at a fast pace with Open source software being a large part of WordPress’ success.
