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

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

Blogging Girl

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