There’s a fun stat that gets thrown around every so often that goes something like “75% of the internet was built on WordPress.” While not exactly true, it’s directionally correct. A giant chunk of the internet was indeed built with WordPress. Released in 2003, it is sort of in the background of the modern tech world, so you might not think about it much. Recently however, WordPress (and variations of it) has been all over the media lately in strange and confusing ways.

I’m not a biologist, but I’m going to discuss a concept in evolutionary psychology anyway. The Red Queen Hypothesis, proposed by (actual) biologist Leigh Van Valen, suggests species must constantly adapt and evolve to maintain their ecosystem status. This idea draws its name from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass,” where the Red Queen tells Alice: “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”

Unless you live under a rock, you were probably impacted in some way by uhh the “largest IT outage in history” a couple weeks ago. Airports, banks, hospitals, and other critical organizations (like F1 race teams) were sent back to the pre-digital age in late July.

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