Django created 2003 at Lawrence Journal-World; released publicly 2005 — "batteries-included," built-in admin/auth/ORM

Claim: Django was created in 2003 at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper and released publicly in 2005. "Batteries-included" framework with built-in admin, auth, and ORM.

Source: Wikipedia / Django project history.

Confidence: Verified.

Why this matters for Candid: Second framework on the dated timeline; alongside Ruby on Rails open-sourced July 2004 (DHH from Basecamp); v1.0 December 2005 — convention-over-configuration it bookends the 2004–2005 framework arrival that made hand-rolled web stacks obsolete. See [[hand-rolled-web-stack-pre-2004]].