Although today there is an ever expanding number of Content Management Systems (CMS) that a user can choose from, very few CMS platforms have gained as much popularity as Joomla and WordPress.
A good number of people have the mistaken conviction that the two are hugely popular by virtue of being the oldest in the market.
The fact is that the two are neither the pioneers nor the oldest in the CMS space. There are quite a good number of CMS platforms that were in existence even prior to the turn of this century.
Actually, WordPress didn’t appear until 2003, while Joomla only showed up around 2005.