Blogging Girl » Do you remember Greymatter?

Greymatter. It’s a name that makes many web hosts shudder, but for long-time bloggers like me, it brings back fond memories. When I purchased my very first domain in 2001, I immediately began blogging on it with the use of Greymatter. Back in those days, Greymatter wasn’t just a blogging script or CMS, it was THE blogging script, THE CMS to have.

Of course, looking back on things, I don’t see how I loved a bajillion templates, the thousands of .html files that would be generated for my archives, and the constant rebuilding every time I created a new layout. But you know what? Greymatter served its purpose, and it did what I needed it to do. So I definitely give kudos to it!

And if you happen to be interested in trying out Greymatter now, despite the majority of bloggers using WordPress? You can do so — download it here.

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Janet wrote on July 2, 2009 at 12:20 pm #

Oh, I remember Greymatter. It used to be so cool to have. That was back when you had to have cgi access in order to blog, instead of MySQL.

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Brandy wrote on July 2, 2009 at 12:34 pm #

Ah, the bittersweet memories, and how I miss it, but then again, since WordPress, there’s nothing better.

Want to hear something very sad? I actually ended up heavily modifying gm-library.cgi to change the colours of my Greymatter admin panel, because I hated the dull blue color scheme, in addition to adding my smileys in a more neater manner (inside of a scrolling div), and changing the size of the admin settings.

I don’t miss how easy it was for users to “flood you”, bloody insecure cgi scripts, that would eventually freeze and crash your server.

Kudos to the memories, and WordPress.

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Kylie wrote on July 2, 2009 at 1:00 pm #

I remember other people using it, but I never did. My first blog was run by b2. I always liked the way greymatter blogs looked, though. I was a complete n00b back then, I basically stripped the b2 template down to just text and then used iframes or something. Yuck!! haha.

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shelly wrote on July 10, 2009 at 9:17 pm #

My first blog platform was Greymatter, too! Dayum, those were the days. (Eventually, I moved on to Moveable Type and, what I currently use, WordPress.)

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zel wrote on August 2, 2009 at 6:04 am #

OMG! I remember Greymatter! Its still around? I havent heard about it in years!

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Ursula wrote on November 2, 2009 at 1:06 pm #

It’s nice to hear someone remembers Greymatter, I personally loved it and could customize it better than I can WordPress today. Too bad..

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