natewhitehill.com— This is the story of Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Wordpress. He is only 23 now but has changed the way many of us share ideas and use our blogs to connect with people all over the world.
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I was in a class with Matt at the University of Houston. It was our freshman year and we were in a class in the Honors College called Human Situation which is basically a History/Philosophy/Psychology/English class on steroids. We would have a large lecture one day and small sessions discussing what happened in lecture and in the readings on another. That class was extremely challenging not only because of the material but because it was a huge leap from my AP English class (and I got a 4 and 5 on those exams). Anyway in the small discussion groups of about 20 people Matt would say some of the most profound things that he would grasp from the readings. Needless to say, it was very impressive. I figured he would go on to be a philosophy or English major. It wasn't until a few years later that I saw that he was working at Cnet and that he had developed Wordpress. Just goes to show that this guy is not only a good developer but a well rounded, well spoken, scholar.
When I was 21, I was downloading so much porn from the internet that telecom companies were forced to invest in bandwidth just to keep everything from grinding to a halt. My early adoption of open-source database software to catalog my massive porn collection was a major boost to the free software movement. And let's just say without my influence, it would still take two hours to buffer a blocky, 15-second, 600KB porn streaming video clip.I didn't ask to be a hero... I just am.
Wordpress.. blah.. he's about as cool as the guy who invented myspace :P at 16 I was writing ATM software HAH!At 21 I was drinking heavily because I realized I missed out on highschool by working.. but hey.. :]
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roprotMar 5, 2007
@AndrewDBarker: Smooth and silky, for the most part. The bucketloads of cash helped.
frequeniquityMar 5, 2007
I was in a class with Matt at the University of Houston. It was our freshman year and we were in a class in the Honors College called Human Situation which is basically a History/Philosophy/Psychology/English class on steroids. We would have a large lecture one day and small sessions discussing what happened in lecture and in the readings on another. That class was extremely challenging not only because of the material but because it was a huge leap from my AP English class (and I got a 4 and 5 on those exams). Anyway in the small discussion groups of about 20 people Matt would say some of the most profound things that he would grasp from the readings. Needless to say, it was very impressive. I figured he would go on to be a philosophy or English major. It wasn't until a few years later that I saw that he was working at Cnet and that he had developed Wordpress. Just goes to show that this guy is not only a good developer but a well rounded, well spoken, scholar.
Closed AccountMar 5, 2007
Who did y'all have as a professor? I'm in Human Sit (team Omega) right now and absolutely loving it!
semiotixMar 6, 2007
When I was 21, I was downloading so much porn from the internet that telecom companies were forced to invest in bandwidth just to keep everything from grinding to a halt. My early adoption of open-source database software to catalog my massive porn collection was a major boost to the free software movement. And let's just say without my influence, it would still take two hours to buffer a blocky, 15-second, 600KB porn streaming video clip.I didn't ask to be a hero... I just am.
evilbeatfarmerMar 6, 2007
Wordpress.. blah.. he's about as cool as the guy who invented myspace :P at 16 I was writing ATM software HAH!At 21 I was drinking heavily because I realized I missed out on highschool by working.. but hey.. :]
evilbeatfarmerMar 6, 2007
I wish my college experience was like this.. mostly I remember people bitching about not being able to sleep in, or how drunk they got last night.
lyricasJul 14, 2009
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exmastersringJun 10, 2010
When I was 21, there is no Internet in my place yet! :)