Happy fifth birthday Drupal
Today, five years ago, Drupal 1.0.0 was released! The following snippet is taken directly from the original announcement:
Today, drop.org announces the release of drupal 1.00 after an extensive period of testing. Drupal is a full-featured content management/discussion engine using Apache/PHP/MySQL and suitable to setup a news-driven community or portal site similar to kuro5hin.org and slashdot.org. Current features include discussion forums, web-based administration, theme support, an open submission queue, content management, a modularized design, PHP sessions, user management with access control and username/profanity/hostname filters, error logging, a public diary module, an affiliate site module, backend/headline generation (RSS/RDF) and much more.
To celebrate the event, Karlijn and I made you a cake:
![Cake A display of all the ingredients required to make a Drupal cake](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-1.jpg)
![Cake A cake in a cake pan](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-2.jpg)
![Cake A cake being cut in half](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-3.jpg)
![Cake A hand taking the top of the cake off](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-4.jpg)
![Cake A close up of a triangular piece of cake](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-5.jpg)
![Cake A round cake with a triangular piece on top](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-6.jpg)
![Cake A close-up of colorful m&m's](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-7.jpg)
![Cake A close-up of blue m&m's only](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-8.jpg)
![Cake Sugar, butter, cream, m&m's and white chocolate displayed in bowls](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-9.jpg)
![Cake Butter and white chocolate being melted on a stove](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-10.jpg)
![Cake Frosting being applied on a cake](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-11.jpg)
![Cake A hand decorating a cake with blue m&m's](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-12.jpg)
![Cake A finished cake the shape of Druplicon](https://dri.es/files/images/drupal/cake-13.jpg)
— Dries Buytaert
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