Appendix B. Drupal Background
Drupal’s origins can be traced back to 2000, when Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder, then students at the University of Antwerp, set up a wireless network to share a high-speed Internet connection. It quickly grew into a shared news website, and the software that Dries had worked on was released to others in January 2001 as Drupal.
By the Way: Birth of Email
It is interesting that the precursor of the Internet—ARPANET (1969)—also began as a way to share computer resources and files. One of the first applications added to DARPANET was email (1971).
Drupal has gone through major releases since that time, and it is now used around the world by a variety of government, commercial, and tax-exempt organizations. ...
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