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Drupal is older than...

Whilst writing yesterday's email about "not invented here", I started thinking about how Drupal's timeline (which was created 23 years ago) compares to some of the other similar or related projects.

Here's a list of project release dates from ChatGPT, which seem correct to me at a glance:

  • Drupal: January 15, 2001.
  • Git: April 7, 2005.
  • Symfony 1: October 22, 2005.
  • GitHub and Bitbucket: 2008.
  • GitLab: October 2011.
  • Laravel: June 9, 2011.
  • Drupal 7: January 5, 2011.
  • Symfony 2: July 28, 2011.
  • Composer: March 1, 2012.
  • Drupal 8: November 19, 2015.

Looking at this list, when speaking about "not invented here", a lot of what Drupal would come to use and depend on just didn't exist in its early years.

- Oliver

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I'm an certified Drupal Triple Expert with 18 years of experience, a Drupal core contributor, public speaker, live streamer, and host of the Beyond Blocks podcast.