Were you aware that WordPress keeps a download counter that updates live and shows you how many downloads there have been of the currently-released version of WordPress?
Well, they do.
According to this counter, WordPress 3.0 has been downloaded over 20,000,000 times (just over 20,221,541 at the time of this writing, actually). That’s a lot of hello worlds.
Post Revisions:
- 4 July, 2011 @ 4:17 [Current Revision] by Ryan Imel
- 26 October, 2010 @ 20:14 by Ryan Imel

captured by me at 20,000,004 times
http://valentmustamin.com/blog/2010/10/27/download-counter-at-wordpress-touched-the-20-million-mark-wordpress/
that’s a lot of hello worlds.
With all the Hello Worlds in existence, would this be a good way to prove the multiverse theory?
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