Drupal’s Twenty-five years birthday today! In the world of technology, hitting a quarter-century milestone while remaining a top-notch powerhouse of the internet is an achievement so rare it's almost unheard of. It is just a software’s 25th birthday, that in itself, is an achievement, indeed in the world of IT and the Internet, were several companies, manage to start og die within 5 years due to change of circumstances.

First time I heard about Drupal was in 2006sh where my own site Sammy.dk was built with PostNuke CMS software and was hacked. So, I started with Drupal 4.6, a new world, a new CMS, a new future. 
Today, I have working professionally with Drupal the past 14 years in the City of Copenhagen (Municipality) as an IT architect, where we have been working with Drupal since Drupal 6 with 3 sites, through Drupal 7 with 400+ sites and since 2021 with Drupal 8,9,10 and now upgrading to Drupal 11 on 9 different profiles and about 300+ sites. It is a difficult CMS, but also a great CMS with what it can. It is trusted by large companies and media houses, it is open source, it is supporting open web. 
It is a CMS with a very large number of contributions and a large community, constant evolution, and the deep-seated belief in doing things the right way. 

Drupal has been the secure, flexible backbone for everyone from global governments and prestigious universities to world-renowned NGOs, major media outlets, and countless ambitious startups. Drupal's versatility allowed it to power a wide array of systems far beyond traditional websites, including intranets, booking systems, learning platforms, data hubs, and IoT dashboards.

For a quarter century, Drupal remained true to its technical soul. Its strength remains in structured content, best-in-class workflow features—including moderation, granular permissions, and multilingual support—and delivery to various displays via reusable content and APIs. Under the hood, proven performance, precise caching, and a mature security process ensure scalability. Its core strengths of extendability, customizability, and openness solidify its status as a uniquely flexible and sovereign digital platform.
Not only technically capable itself, Drupal's design and culture inherently promoted sharing and reuse. This encouraged people to build widely capable and powerful general components, and contribute them back, a mindset that fueled the growth of over 50,000 modules. 

But beyond the millions of sites, the technical power, and the tens of thousands of modules, Drupal's true magic lies in the people. It's a platform that created careers. For many, Drupal was the first step into the world of content management. For tens of thousands more, it blossomed into a fulfilling career. Developers, architects, designers, editors, trainers, marketers, agency founders—a full spectrum of digital careers have flourished around Drupal, mine is one of them.

Drupal is here today not because it chased trends. But because people cared and they did the right thing. Happy birthday, Drupal!

The founder of Drupal Dries Buytaert has written a nice birthday blog on his site.