So let me introduce myself I
my name is Michel Val I would like to
tell you that I am 29 years old soon to be 32 but
It is
the opposite I am like many
of you I do a job in
let's say in the jargon of the trade we say
to be technical I do of
the computer that is always well served
still a job with a future
let's say and I came to talk to you so
from the origins of WordPress VO
the front of WordPress or even B2 or even
the front
B2 because still there was
a life already before so how much how much
in the room we started blogging
before the appearance of WordPress ah that
do
few how many started maybe with
B2 ah nobody ah
if it pleases
uh
so so at the beginning uh well
it was in 99 actually actually you will
maybe you know maybe
lots of people who already had internet
in 94 who will tell you yes it is
maybe a great era thingamajig
and so on, I personally have
started internet in 99 I didn't have
computer at home all that so I
traîis in the university information rooms
I was finally learning I was learning on my own
but let's say it's rather at the end
After a month I said to myself I
I said hey that would be cool actually
create websites rather than just
hang out on RC
what and so so well I opened my t
test and so for well 99 2000 I have
do like everyone else html with
TR CSS tables give me the basics huh
just to say oh an active link not
active and
etc. but hey I have but hey do do
make sites make sites
statics was nice but I'm bored
a little when
same and then there was blogger I have a
I have a friend on RC a Filipino friend who
who told me like that one day that
that he had discovered a site which
allowed to update its update
update its website automatically by
magic it made the archives it made
all i was a little i was a little and
especially it wasn't a thing to host me
I didn't want to have something hosted I
said
Well I only had one year of experience
from the web but already in one year of experience
of the web at that time the services
appeared disappeared then I
still wanted to keep control of
my files keep control of my
presence in fact on the internet so when
when I saw this thing I could keep it
control my files and be able to
TO DO
automatically without friction without
thing it was
fabulous and so I started blogging
as you see with content
impacting that
thing I say I changed the PH of the world
there like
Well, I realized in fact
I looked at what others were doing
users of the service I am
preview that everyone was telling his
live so good but a little like everyone
world
but at the same time I realized
account of a thing finally it is rather I
I realized rather years ago
after that I actually realized
what made blogging
the time was
magical is that now we are
used to having to choose a fair title
below the title we have a small field
Slog that we might edit for
you grapple
Soo after we have categories after we
will add tags well no blogger
it was much less than that it was
it was really simple, in fact it was two
ifram one on top of the other a text will have a
Submit button and that's it
really the base well there is a little
button synchronized with your F I
pass them
details and so it has a very
friendly with blogger too it was
on the on the H page they had they had
a list of the latest updated blogs
It allowed me to discover lots of things
full full full full full of blog
in fact to make lots of contacts
we will come back to this later and in
made through these
contacts I noticed that there were
uses which were in fact evolving
because well the just just just one
song text actually given to
users just a song text and
just and just one button to send and
you will realize that they
will adapt the tool to what they want
in fact and among mixed race they all go
they will all more or less adopt
pretty standard behaviors actually
enough
standardized for example there at the beginning we
had no type but suddenly we have
all arrived more or less at the same
agreement to put the title engr in
first line then after we all have more
or at least started to put some
comments because in fact before we
had no comment yes I know that
may seem it may seem strange
for people there already now me
It seems weird to me now when I
I visit blogs and I see
that they have no comments I
tell me where the button is and
so at the time we didn't need to
did it had to be done with a with
shepherd services that opened in
popups were nice good in
one year of use in one year
blogger usage i used
of services which are which are
broke the face so quickly so there too
Well, suddenly I lost control of
my comments and I have
lost a lot of interesting discussions
and then in 2001 early 2001 pe PRS blog
starting to become more and more popular
increasingly used blog and blog
started more and more
more said rather that was of time of
from time to time in
walk com to
say what we have
commission I have passed on services
hosted like no newspaper etc. me
I didn't like it because I
I said my commentary services
used they are broken the face
other other sites that I had to
At the time I created my personal sites I had
used the Platons hosting
personally the platforms broke
the mouth they are so broken
mouths that are not even available
in web archive it's for you
so to say I said to myself good
what is it what is it
that I can
install I looked there were plenty
lots and lots of little scripts it was
it was a bit if you know in
biology youz the explosion of the prec you
have the meadow explosion
WordPress plein plein plein plein plein
little things almost all more
now and there was grateur thanks
It was quite a nice idea
because there was a little
community around was one of the only ones that
had a bit of a community actually
This is one of the first real ones
community before WordPress
And
type except that very quickly about 3
weeks after I became interested
well no stopped maintaining it which
It's a shame and it was PE
and I never managed to read the EP
I admit and then in fact SC level
It wasn't great because I
asked why there was why
on each administration interface it
there were only buttons there were none
link actually çaardit it kept the and the
password in clear all the time and
this and this was actually used this
did authentication every time
times that we each time that we did
something so suddenly it was
anyone who did a view source
found himself with his pass what
but meanwhile in real life in my
real life I was a webmaster in a
small association for the preservation of the
lang Corsica so I had maintained the
site in fact I had remade it
new design and so on and they had
they happened to have a little one
database which was actually a
type of dictionary of the Corsican language
very very good stuff by the way if you
look on the nel it's a hardcore
Well after the problem is that's it
was my first my first PHP project
masql there was not really any management
of error so when when I tell you
when I tell you to go get it in
I hope you don't go there
search because actually a little out
now and actually also this finally this
was especially for me the discovery that
a mootuss I could create and manipulate
data I said to myself
hey maybe i could do i
could maybe make a script of
blog
So I looked for a name myself and
I said to myself
well something with blogger blog at the time
I was listening to his BL song on repeat
so I say blog 2 blogger 2
B2 and there it was one in fact I have some
talked around me finally around me
among the bloggers whose
I had met him over the course of
time I realized that there was
lots and lots and lots of people who were
interested in this very thing
were interested in the idea of
to embark to embark on a
adventure where he could finally have
their say on what what what
that he would like in a blog software
and so on
and in fact we didn't really know where we were
was going to the final but hey start when
even so at the start at the start it was
not really clear I was looking for a
free license because I was thinking
it would still be good but in
waiting to find one and not
not me so as not to be stuck in a
license that I would not have chosen I had
kept the copyright so I took myself
beautiful green wooden shutters
for months because he still
marked copyright but I didn't have
Well, and then at the beginning there wasn't
all that all that we have now
it's only 3 months later 3 months
after the creation I rejected the
categories by
example also had the choice is this
what do i do a blog is it
that I actually make a CMS
Personally, my philosophy is
always been that that V2 and thereforepress
after for me my philosophy was
that must have been very good at that
had to do only one thing to do it
very good it was maintaining a blog
after that it holds that it maintains
photo galleries and so on initially I
didn't see it as a priority so I
finds media uploads very good
and CETA but personally it’s not
It's not the thing I saw as
priority me I see I saw the idea
to be able to maintain a blog without
friction and that it happens the most
naturally of the world as being
as being superior to other others
goals and there were also
mistakes of youth because when I
begin
B2 maybe it will surprise some
a few but I only had one
I had only one month behind me
phpsql actually so I started I have
learned PHP actually with so it's for
that when you see the VO code
press and you say well when is it
even weird why they did that
like that it is often because well they
kept pretty much the way B2 did
was made and the way B2 was
it was also because anyway
I was a big N
for example for example in fact at the end
2 months after 2 months of B2 I have
I had my first big B2 user
It was Brigit Eton who maintained a
site called Eon web I don't know
if there are any of you who know
It was a kind of blog directory
the time and brigiton was was very
very verbose she posted a lot
full of tickets and when she imported
actually his blog in
she told me that it was weird
the more she wrote the post the more
it was
No, well it was really simple, it was
because I didn't know how to do a I
didn't know how to code for
to catch to catch the months in the
archives so what I was doing
it was I CIC on I CIS on the posts
Well I'm talking about the most recent one. Is that the
month has changed well the month has changed
so I display Leen
but I'm almost ashamed to tell you
tell you this but hey you know
how do you say someone from seigor
in a discipline it is because he has
does all the stupid things possible
imaginable so start from the beginning
2002 I said to myself, good GP, that's it
just before that I had just before that
I had obtained from Simon Willon a very
good developer who provides me
a script to make mpc in license
BSD but hey after all after all
when I went to GP h it helped me
allowed to do a lot of things
more technically interesting things
as I mastered PHP in
so support the blog pay that
It made me really happy at first.
At the beginning we had customers
graphics on on no on our desks that
has completely disappeared I feel like
but at the time it was a it was the
big fashion it was the big big
mode each each environment had
his client his graphic client quo by
example there if you use the Pione
WordPress
it's a customer it's a customer who uh
uses among others the blogger app
in
so we also had the support
of
trackback le support de trackback en
done i have it i have it i have it i have i
I did it myself, it was before there was
other contributions uh from
other interested developers and I
had done it a little despite uh despite the
the rather dry doc from sixopart in
done but hey it was done
prayer gr
contribution
finely or by quees
a very nice guy he enjoys the
saxophone as its name indicates
mat maybe something this
pseudo and so there it was it was
It was a super interesting time
It was rather towards the end of 2002
it was very very very bubbling
with a lot a lot a lot of
lots and lots of hope for the future
and I had started I had started to
write a version 1.0 which was supposed to be
multiblog which was supposed to have
features or sick of style
even make the administration
templable but ultimately in the end in
did that put a lot of pressure on
my shoulders and at the same time well at the same time
It had been 6 months since I was
unemployment and future prospects
still it wasn't great either so
well I'm a little turned in
depression and so I am I have
I disappeared there are lots of people who are
are asked but what is happening
what's going on it's got me a little
touched at the end when I when I am
came back and I saw the thing when
I learned that Matth had
launched WordPress in April
2003 that made me come out a little
hole actually i confess so i was great
happy because it meant when
same as that behind I had I had
started something that is good
still continues today what and
Well, I had participated in the final
with with Mat du et cetera until 2005
roughly
and so I don't know how to end this
but I'm going to tell you about a
One day I was walking in my
neighborhood and then and then there are guys
that fell on me I began
to fight me like that my mother she has my
mother she was very scared and she told me
said you move with your name you bre