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If you have ever read anything on starting a blog, you've likely heard of Blogger and Wordpress. Blogger was one of the first platforms created for the blogging world in the sense we understand it today. It was also acquired by Google in 2003. In 2003, Wordpress also began. The latest statistic is that Wordpress.org runs 30% of the world's websites including big companies like CNN, Fortune, NBC, and TechCrunch.