Dries Buytaert

Happy sixth birthday Drupal

Today, six 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 some cookies:

Baking ingredients and tools, including flour, sugar, butter, an egg, and food coloring, arranged on a countertop.
Step 1: buy the tools and the ingredients to make the cookies of your choice. Could be peanut butter cookies, oatmeal cookies or sugar cookies as long there is room for custom frosting.
A bowl filled with brown sugar, ready to be used as an ingredient for baking cookies.
Step 2: unpack the ingredients.
A bowl filled with smooth, mixed cookie dough, ready for the next step in baking.
Step 3: mix all the ingredients as you would normally do.
Hands rolling out cookie dough with a wooden rolling pin on a floured countertop.
A metal ring is bent into the shape of the Drupal logo, with pliers resting nearby.
Step 5: bend a metal ring so it takes the shape of Druplicon (the Drupal logo).
A round cookie cutter is pressed into rolled-out dough on a floured surface.
Step 6: cut Druplicons in dough using our Druplicon cookie cutter.
A person carefully lifts a small piece of cookie dough from a larger sheet on a floured surface.
Step 7: take out the Druplicon shaped dough.
A tray of cookies baking in the oven, with a reflection of a Drupal-themed t-shirt on the glass.
Step 8: put the Druplicon dough in the oven. That's my "DrupalCon Brussels" t-shirt reflecting in the oven's cover glass.
Freshly baked cookies resting on a baking sheet after being taken out of the oven.
Step 9: take the cookies out of the oven.
A packet of white frosting and a bottle of blue food coloring for mixing blue frosting.
Step 10: mix the frosting with blue food coloring.
A hand dips a fish-shaped cookie into a bowl of blue frosting.
Step 11: dip the cookies into the frosting.
A hand holds a cookie covered in blue frosting, with excess frosting dripping off.
Step 12: dip the cookies in the frosting.
A plate of homemade cookies with blue icing, shaped like the Drupal logo, celebrating Drupal's birthday.
Step 13: that's it! Happy birthday Drupal!

— Dries Buytaert