just seen Rick Ellis joined this forum on 12-21-2001.
So does codeigniter have a “10 YEARS-DAY” next year?

I am pretty sure that date came from the old pmachine forums. Since the ci and ee sites are running the same system (ee multi site manager) those dates are not accurate for CI.  If I am not mistaken CodeIgniter started around 2006. Could be wrong though

I also wonder when it really started…