To celebrate WordPress’ upcoming 10th anniversary this May 27, 2013, Dougal Campbell proposes blogging the following topics. Here goes!

When WordPress was first released in May 2003

• I was 40 years old
• I already had a web site
• I had sold a domain name¹

When I first started using WordPress in December 2004

• I didn’t post under my real name, instead I used blogan
• Posting an image meant including a small thumbnail image in the top corner of the post
• I thought I could change people’s opinions by writing about politics and religion
• I hadn’t heard of link rot
• WordPress themes were CSS files and some images and CSS Zen Garden was amazing!
• WordPress was on version 1.2, named for Charles Mingus
• There were 8,000,000 blogs, yet 62% of Internet users didn’t know what a blog is

 Since I first started using WordPress

• I learned CSS, some PHP, and can navigate the WordPress codex
• I have used more themes than I can remember, and provided a bunch of support for the K2 theme on its forum
• I lived by web stats, and now largely ignore them²
• I learned to appreciate responsiveness in web sites
• I have tried About.me, App.Net, Blogspot, Facebook, 500px, Flickr, FriendFeed, Google+, Google Wave, Identi.ca, Instagram, LinkedIn, MySpace, new MySpace, Pinterest, Plurk, Posterous, Pownce, Prezi, RebelMouse, Slideshare, Quora, Twitter, Vizify, Yammer, and Youtube³ but still consider this WordPress blog to be my online home

If you use WordPress, join in the fun!