The most famous typo in history gave us “,” but it wasn’t until January 2001, when Dries decided to release the software behind the site that he came up with “Drupal.” Drawing from another Dutch word, “druppel,” which means “drop,” was translated into English as “Drupal,” pronounced “drew-pull.” The birth of Acquiaįast forward six years later to Route 128, where entrepreneur Jay Batson hoped to establish a business that could help companies scale and flourish with open source software.

Dries thought “dorp,” the Dutch word for “village,” would be a good fit for the software but mistyped the word when registering the domain name. In its earliest iteration before it even had a name, Drupal was a small content framework that Dries and Snijder used to communicate with one another. The entertaining results hint at the company’s origins in Antwerp, Belgium, where students Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder developed Drupal, the open source content management system that came to power websites for Conagra, UNICEF, NBC Sports Digital, George Washington University, and more.

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