From fc465b82c415b9e22cc2b9996f106f57687cc77a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maggie Appleton <5599295+MaggieAppleton@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:21:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] content: replace Gutenberg question-mark dates with definitive dates Closes #112. Gutenberg was announced June 2017 and shipped as part of WordPress 5.0 on December 6, 2018. Remove (?) uncertainty markers and use the confirmed dates. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 --- src/content/essays/block-party.mdx | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/content/essays/block-party.mdx b/src/content/essays/block-party.mdx index 6d9102b4..99fc868f 100644 --- a/src/content/essays/block-party.mdx +++ b/src/content/essays/block-party.mdx @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ Tumblr was at the height of its popularity. The web was interactive and Web 2.0 Notion released version 2.0 in 2018. In this context, despite being the most visible and widely used block-editor to date, Notion was quite late to the game. It's undeniable Notion has been the most influential platform championing and pushing the boundaries of block-based editing in recent years. -Wordpress started work on Gutenberg in 2017(?) and released its first version in 2018(?). +WordPress announced Gutenberg in June 2017 and shipped it as part of WordPress 5.0 on December 6, 2018. Notion's first release in 2018 kicked things into high gear here. While Wordpress Gutenberg has been out for X years, it served a small use case; writing blog posts. Notion reframed the block editor as an everyday tool – a place to write collaborative documents for your team, or even just yourself. It turned it into an editor you live in, rather than a publishing tool for a specific purpose.