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Raspberry Pi: Ten Years of the Forum and Blog

Accepted submission by canopic jug at 2021-07-24 09:26:12
Career & Education

Although initially expecting to only sell a few thousand units, the Raspberry Pi has sold more than 40 million computers to date. Over time it has developed quite a fan base. Part of cultivating that base has been through a dedicated blog and help forum. The Raspberry Pi blog and forum have now turned 10 years old [raspberrypi.org].

We’ve kept every single blog post we’ve ever written up on this site, starting way back in July 2011. [raspberrypi.org] Ten years is a long time in [I]nternet terms, so you’ll find some dead links in some earlier posts; and this website has undergone a number of total redesigns, so early stuff doesn’t tend to have the pretty thumbnail associated with it to show you what it’s all about. (Our page design didn’t use them back then.) But all the same, for the internet archeologists among you, or those interested in the beginnings of Raspberry Pi, those posts from before we even had hardware are worth flicking through.

There are two organizations involved. Raspberry Pi Trading makes the hardware, the magazines, the peripherals, etc. The Raspberry Pi Foundation runs the charitable programs.

Previously:
(2021) Raspberry Pi Begins Selling its RP2040 Microcontroller for $1 [soylentnews.org]
(2021) The Ongoing Raspberry Pi Fiasco [soylentnews.org]
(2021) Raspberry Pi Users Mortified as Microsoft Repository that Phones Home is Added to Pi OS [soylentnews.org]
(2020) Raspberry Pi: We're Making it Easier to Build Our Devices into Your Hardware [soylentnews.org]
(2020) Raspberry Pi 400: Its Designer Reveals More About the Faster Pi 4 in the $70 PC's Keyboard [soylentnews.org]


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