I was unfortunate to start having errors on my home desktop over the past weekend.  BSOD’s, all that fun stuff. To be fair, the errors have been happening for a few days prior, but I digress.  Eventually, it was to the point where I determined that I’d need to do a re-format of my SSD, and possibly change out my primary data drive.

Once that was done, it was a matter of copying files over from the old data drive to the new one.  But I thought that rather than do a “blanket” copy, I’d take the time and really sort through the stuff on the drive.

Buried in one of the download folders was a site backup I’d done in 2009.  (When I was still on the “full” domain name of the-gatekeeper.net.)  Near as I can remember, this was about when I made the switch from shared web-hosting to running my own VPS.  But what intrigued me was looking into the folder a bit more – it was a WordPress install.  Finding the readme & version files, it was 2.8.4.  Not bad… so I’d probably been on for at least a few months prior, maybe back to 2.7 or even 2.6.

With the release of v3.6 imminent as well as WP’s 10th “anniversary” last month, it’s just one of those things that you kinda say “wow”.  =)