[geeklog-devel] About Geeklog anmd Geeklog.net

[今駒哲子]

Dirk,

Thank you for the detailed explanation!

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Ivy

2013/9/8 Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de>:
> Tom wrote:
>
>> http://wiki.geeklog.net/index.php/Who_made_Geeklog%3F
>>
>> Dirk would know more about this. Maybe he can answer the question  (and we
>> can use the info as well on our About Geeklog page in the future)
>
>
> That was even before my time :)
>
> As far as I know, back in 2000 or thereabouts, Jason Whittenburg wanted to create 2 websites, Security Geeks and News Geeks (I don't even know their original URLs) and was looking for a CMS. When he couldn't find one that he liked, he went on to write his own - what eventually became Geeklog (actually, if you check the very end of public_html/docs/history, there's an entry that refers to another CMS, phpWebLog, which Geeklog seems to have borrowed some code from).
>
> Geeklog's security focus also dates back to those days. After all, how can you run a site about IT security if the CMS running that site is not secure?
>
> When Jason moved on (handing Geeklog over to Tony Bibbs), he also sold those two sites. I don't know what happened to them, but I don't think they're still operational.
>
> Thus ends today's (incomplete) history lesson :)
>
> HTH
>
> bye, Dirk