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.in.th/sourceforge.net/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: