In 2011, Bootstrap was created by two Twitter employees (Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton) to address the issue of fragmentation of internal tools/platforms. Bootstrap aimed to provide consistency among different web applications that were internally developed to reduce redundancy and increase adaptability and reusability. As digital creators, we should always aim to make our applications adaptable and reusable. This will help keep coherency between applications and speed up processes, as we won't need to create basic foundations over and over again. For example, a website might have a login system, which is not unique to one project, but prevalent in many, and therefore reusing already existing code for this makes sense.
After a few months, Twitter Blueprint was born and provided a way to document and share common design patterns/assets within Twitter...