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Want to get your head around how far Joomla has come since the early days of Mambo? Download and install one of these 5 and 6 year old versions.

• Mambo 3.0.4, released in May 2001:
  http://mirror...t/m/ma/mambo/mambo3.0.4.tar.gz


• Mambo 3.0.5, released in June 2001:
  http://www.linuxwebmasterfree.com/software/1270.html
  


• Mambo 4.0.6, released in December 2002: 
  http://mirror.in.th/sourceforge.net/m/ma/mambo/

What Will You Find in Mambo 3.0.4?

• No WYSIWYG Editor
• No install instructions (they arrived with Mambo 3.0.5)
• No separate folder for extensions or templates
  
• The very first browser-based installer
  
• 324 Kb in total file size
  
• Unencrypted passwords in the database
• A cron job needed to get any newsfeeds

Images of Mambo 3.0

I tried, but wasn't able to get Mambo 3.0.4 working successfully on PHP 4.4.7.  The URLs didn't work and the administrator wouldn't permit logins. However I did take these screenshots:

Mambo 3.0.4 Template Design Mambo 3.0.4 Template Design

Mambo 3.0.5 Template Design Mambo 3.0.5 Template Design

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written by Brian Teeman, January 25, 2008

Ah a blast from the past. Its hard to believe looking at my Joomla 1.5 install that I was so impressed when I saw the first beta of Mambo 4.0

To get an idea of the range, or lack of, extensions that were available have a look here

http://www.mamboportal.com/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,46/func,selectcat/cat,8/

70 Templates
20 Modules
38 Components

And many of those components are just different language releases of the same component

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written by Good Web Practices, January 25, 2008

LOL! Nice post Steve. Will be interesting to see if the differences in another 5 years time! You'll probably be able to do a similar post then!

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written by Steve Burge, January 25, 2008

I'm sure! I bet we'll look back at Joomla 1.5 in 2013 and be shocked at how basic it was

Sooo true...
written by Salyris Studios, January 26, 2008

It is the same way we look back at the old web and design in general. That is, back when gas was affordable!

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written by maitani, October 08, 2008

comparing joomla 1.5 and mambo 3.O

You are funny

If you have to comparing compare mambo 4.6.5 to joomla 1.7

and it is not the same ball park

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