Happy Birthday, WordPress!

So what did the first version of WordPress look like?
If you signed into your dashboard it would have looked something like this:

And your actual blog may have looked like this:

You can view these images and more in full visual history of WordPress over on Mashable: http://mashable.com/2011/05/27/wordpress-turns-eight/
Since its inception, WordPress has since gone through 98 version releases. Here are a few more statistics:

• At this moment in time there are 66,768,613 WordPress sites in the world
• WordPress Version 3.5 has been downloaded 22,231,397 22,231,397 times.
• WordPress is used by 57.5% of all the websites whose CMS we know. This is 18.1% of all websites.
• As of today, WordPress.org hads1,763 available themes and 72,216,848 downloaded themes.
• As of today, WordPress.org has 25,365 plugins and 467,020,663 plugin downloads
• WordPress.com users produce about 47.8 million new posts and 62.4 million new comments each month.

Do you remember the early days of WordPress? Leave a comment and tell us about it!

Statistics sources
http://wordpress.org/download/counter/http://en.wordpress.com/stats/http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/allhttp://wordpress.org/themes/http://wordpress.org/plugins/