WordPress Almost Didn’t Happen

What if Matt had joined Google instead of starting WordPress?

The internet might have felt a little less like ours.

In his recent post, Matt mentioned “How the internet might have turned out differently if I had taken that job, as my mom wanted me to (because they offered free food).”

Funny line. But also wild to think about. It’s incredible how much of the web traces back to one person deciding to build something open.

I think about that sometimes. The tiny choices that ripple out for decades. Who’s choosing open now? And what will that mean twenty years from here?