Oh, it's you. You're here early, so let's get started. Welcome to the Ohtori Web Publishing Seminar. The Academy is doing its best to equip students for the high-tech world they'll be entering upon graduation so the Chairman invited me to host this class. I expect the other students will be along shortly, but we can talk a bit while we're waiting.

Anyway, in answer to your question, while WordPress began as a simple tool for blogging, it has evolved into one of the most comprehensive and adaptive content management tools available. WordPress can be used for applications ranging from e-commerce to social networking sites, online magazines and just about any other type of informational website you can name. It does have its limitations - I wouldn't try to run a YouTube clone on it, for instance - but as long as you're building an informational site as opposed a web application there are few reasons to use anything other than WordPress. Computer programs are a bit like people, you see. Most of them chug along in their little rut until time and progress bury them. Many die before they are even truly born. But a few have the potential to become something greater.

Wordpress was one of those programs. Even in its infancy it was set apart from other blogging software. Its flexible architecture and open source license drew an enthusiastic community of developers. It appeared on the blogging scene like a comet, shattering the foundations of Movable Type and the other closed-source blogging platforms. Eventually, its ease of use and strong developer community propelled it to the center of the web publishing world, and since blogging is foundational to much of online communication it has become one of the most important pieces of software on the Web. More than 11% of the top million websites are now powered by WordPress.

If you wish to revolutionize the computing world, it's not so much a matter of how fast your software is, or how many features it has, or how big your company is. WordPress is a program that -knew- what it was and what it set out to do, and that -knowing- gave it the power to surpass software whose essence was conflicted, software that sought to please both users and corporate shareholders at the expense of both.



But I know that's not why you've really come to this seminar. Behind your question lies an unspoken desire, dilshan456. What is it? Tell me - your soul, what does it cry out for? Hope? Vengeance? A release from suffering? The bits and bytes that flow through the global computer network are scarcely interesting in and of themselves. But I return time and time again to surf the electronic tides because of the desires, the unspoken drives that propel those trillions of electrons around the world.

The Internet is a place where deception lies so thick that it's a simple thing to peel it away and reveal the truth beneath. A realm where our innermost natures are made manifest, whether or not we want them to be. It represents the confluence of and conflict between so many human impulses - the desire to connect with others, the desire to insulate oneself from others, the desire to be seen, the desire to be anonymous. Oscar Wilde once said "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Many who venture into the electronic world only see its neon-lit surface, but I prefer to go deeper.

So tell me, dilshan456, why are you here?

Last edited by Giovanna (07-27-2017 07:34:26 AM)

Sweet lord, I shed a tear for this beauty.

... I can no longer say that I'm the greatest Mikage enthusiast here.  I must change my avatar in submission.

EDIT: Changed.  I can still say that I'm the biggest Joker from Fighter's Destiny enthusiast.

Last edited by wblstudios (09-10-2011 06:42:23 AM)

Davine Lu Linvega wrote:

Thanks, haha, I think I got some of those in elementary school. I think it'd be cool if instead of "Banned" the title for banned users was "Another Failure" and their user icon would be set to an image of a coffin falling into the flames in Mikage's incinerator.

DO THIS.

Yes, that is an amazing idea.  I won't do it for all banned users, for a whole mess of reasons, but in this specific case?  Ideal.