WordPress was b2/cafelog (2004)

<p><pre><code> What is b2 ? A classy news&#x2F;weblog tool (aka log ware). </code></pre> Two remarkable things in this statement<p>1. It&#x27;s been a long time since people called this &quot;weblogging&quot;, so long that most people don&#x27;t even remember that&#x27;s where &quot;blog&quot; and &quot;blogging&quot; came from.<p>2. Trends are really fickle, what is classy one year looks very dated the next, and in a decade or two comes back as retro cool.

&quot;Pages are generated dynamically from the MySQL database, so no clumsy &#x27;rebuilding&#x27; is involved&quot;. Funny! Today, static site generators market themselves on the exact opposite pain&#x2F;benefit perspective.

They also used to spam google to pay their costs in the early days<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;waxy.org&#x2F;2005&#x2F;03&#x2F;wordpress_websi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;waxy.org&#x2F;2005&#x2F;03&#x2F;wordpress_websi&#x2F;</a>

I remember trying b2 out early in the development and finding the installation on hosted server space a bit complicated. I had a few gremlins as well about the navigation from article&#x2F;archive&#x2F;index pages.<p>Tried later when it was wordpress and used wp to publish the vanity page from October 2004 to February 2010 my backups tell me. I used MoveableType and Greymatter[2] as well - anyone remember those?<p>Went back to old school static web pages about 4 or 5 years ago, mainly because I wasn&#x27;t writing much and keeping the scripts up to date was getting to be a drag...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Movable_type" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Movable_type</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Greymatter_%28software%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Greymatter_%28software%29</a>

&gt;&gt; &quot;If you like b2, please rate it at HotScripts.com&quot;<p>Wow those were the days when I used to browse for php scripts in that site, before sourceforge or github became the hub for open source.

forked by Mullenweg to become WP, more here <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;winningwp.com&#x2F;a-brief-history-of-wordpress&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;winningwp.com&#x2F;a-brief-history-of-wordpress&#x2F;</a><p>best part <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;winningwp.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;W-WordPress-Matt-Quote.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;winningwp.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;W-WordPress-...</a><p>(for the horror fans)

I used to have a b2 based blog a long time ago.<p>I remember that there were no updates for a time, and then there was an announcement about there being two forks, WordPress and b2evolution (I think that was the name?).<p>It&#x27;s hard to believe it&#x27;s been so long since then, and WordPress has come a long way since then! Never really kept track of the other fork.

<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20011116202210&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cafelog.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20011116202210&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cafelog.com...</a><p>What is b2 ?<p>&gt;&gt;A news&#x2F;blog tool.<p>How does it work ?<p>&gt;&gt;You log in, you type something and hit &quot;blog this&quot; and in the next second it&#x27;s on your page(s). Pages are generated dynamically from the MySQL database.<p>Requirements ?<p>&gt;&gt;A server that can run PHP4, and a MySQL database.