I still remember the first Wordpress installation, I was in high school, China still had decent connection to outside world, I rented my first VPS, in west coast US, even tho the domain was eventually blocked by the great firewall after a year due to some personal thoughts I posted. But I learnt a lot from it, it’s the first time I tried to read and modify actual code to make things work the way I wanted. Oh and there was a huge community for Wordpress in China, they’d hold those events in top universities in China to talk about Wordpress, PHP, web and technology in general, always wanted to attend. I think things changed now. Exchanging links to each other’s blog was also a huge scene, I still know some of the people, some of them are still blogging, about their lives, kinda like diary, from high school to graduation from college to getting married and having kids.