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BBPress, a preexisting bloging website, stopped developing its software. Because of such conditions, there was some creative thinking of Matt. In January 2003, Matt Mullenweg announced via his blog that he would develop b2 blog to match the web standards at the time.
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WordPress version 0.70 released. WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content-management system
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CNET, a popular tech company that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics globally, hires Matt Mullenweg and starts to use his Wordpress software.
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He left CNET to start developing Automatic which created an umbrella group that would support lots of open source developers, working on open source things. It would help many websites become easier to use due to Automattics coding.
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Matt Mullenweg expands upon his open source website resources and creates another succesful website. It is called bbPress and it is an open discussion forum website.
