From d62deb93ca3ff79a2a9ccd52b94d08dc0fe21910 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Davies Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:48:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add daily email for 2024-06-08 Drupal is older than... --- source/_daily_emails/2024-06-08.md | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 source/_daily_emails/2024-06-08.md diff --git a/source/_daily_emails/2024-06-08.md b/source/_daily_emails/2024-06-08.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a378be22 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_daily_emails/2024-06-08.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: Drupal is older than... +date: 2024-06-08 +permalink: daily/2024/06/08/drupal-is-older-than +tags: + - software-development + - drupal +cta: d7eol +snippet: | + Drupal is older than... +--- + +Whilst writing [yesterday's email][yesterday] 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. + +[yesterday]: {{site.url}}/daily/2024/06/07/not-invented-here