Uncovering the Fascinating Evolution of PHP: From Humble Beginnings to Dominating the Web

A brief history of PHP from 1995 to 2023

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PHP was first introduced on June 8th, 1995, by the Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf. Initially, the acronym stood for Personal Home Page. Originally, he saw it as a thin templating system on top of business logic written in C or a C API…