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The Salesforce ecosystem from 2003 customer pioneers to today: AppExchange, Force.com, MuleSoft, Slack acquisition, agentic AI on the platform.

WordPress story from 2003 fork of b2/cafelog to the headless and block-editor era, with a focus on early-community voices like Matt Mullenweg.

jQuery archive and modern retrospectives: how John Resig's 2006 library shaped a decade of browser development before React and Web Components.

The social media monitoring stack from 2005 Firehose-era tooling to modern brand-listening platforms.

Personal blogging history, from Movable Type 2.x to static-site generators, the rise of newsletters, and the platform consolidation of the 2010s.

How the mobile web was built before the iPhone changed everything: WAP, J2ME, early webkit, responsive design.

SaaS as a business model and engineering culture, with attention to the 2003-2010 cohort that wrote the playbook for everyone after.

CSS, XHTML, microformats, accessibility: the web-standards movement that won the late 2000s.

Open-source community history: licensing, governance, foundation drama, and the projects that survived the transition to corporate stewardship.

Industry retrospectives: acquisitions, layoffs, cycles, and the people who lived through the dotcom-to-AI arc.