Birth of Joomla in 2005 with the first version of version 1.0

Birth of Joomla in 2005 with the first version of version 1.0, with regard to Mambo as a CMS that was born early in April 2001. Mambo created by Miro Corporation Australia. In those days, Mambo known as the most popular CMS applications are available free of charge with source code, extraordinary and powerful. However, because of differences in principle between the staff of Mambo, then in 2002, Mambo products split into commercial products and open source versions. Commercial developer named Mambo CMS Mambo, while the developer version of the open-source named MOS (Mambo Open-Source). The difference of the two is the security system, free or not, and addressed to the who.

Finally on September 1, 2005, several developers MOS staff actually decided to leave the Mambo project and create a new CMS that is Joomla 1.0, a free, open-source and character of the community. September 17, 2005, Product Joomla 1.0 version published. If you have previously used Mambo, Joomla 1.0 then to study the course is very easy, because the system structure and appearance of the Joomla version is still the same as Mambo, and even support of Mambo components and modules you can use the Joomla version.


In a short time since Joomla birth, the use and development of CMS gathering popularity. In the first year, Joomla downloaded more than 2.5 million times, there are more than 65,000 official Joomla developers, and proved to be counted that many websites are developed from Joomla. Today, CMS Joomla has adopted some webmasters from Brazil to the Netherlands, from U.S. to Italy and from Australia to China. Joomla 1.0 has been said to be stable in the final version 1.0.15.


Joomla has won several accolades for example, in October 2005, the Joomla won 2 awards from the Linux World London as Best of Open Source Linux project. Joomla also become one of the 50 projects is the best open-source world scale.
Starting from version 1.5 beta in October 2006 until the end of 2008, the Joomla continue to be refined by webmasters from various parts of the world, for example, until January 2009, the version Joomla 1.5 has arrived at version 1.5.9 with fixes bugs are reported. In version 1.5, system programming and layout is much different from its predecessor version of Joomla, Joomla 1.0. However, it does not mean Joomla 1.0.15 Stable version abandoned by its loyal users because it proved there are still many developers of commercial and non-commercial issues continue to make components and modules to be used by both Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.0.