Drupal brief history and what's drupal

This is a reply to a friend's question: what's drupal?

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In one sentence, drupal is a web-based CMS(content management system) written in php.

Instead of explaining the key terms in the above sentence, i recommend you to read the history of drupal in http://drupal.org/node/769 , which is more human than technical. i think you'll be more interested in that since you are named by 'Thucydides'.

I'd like to brief the 'name' history in case you have no time to visit drupal.org:

When the authors of Drupal were still University students, they need a "small news site with a built-in web board, allowing the group of friends to leave each other notes ... where they were having dinner ... share some noteworthy news items."

And they created one!

The initial website for the study group had been unamed(?) and in private network before the authors graduated. After graduation, they need a web site in public domain to "stay in touch, keep sharing ...". That was called "drop.org".

The software behind the website was released with the name "Drupal", which came from the Dutch word "druppel".

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