The Complete History of PHP: From Personal Scripts to PHP 8.4

The history of PHP is a fascinating journey of evolution, community effort, and quiet dominance in the web development world. What began in 1994 as a simple tool for tracking visits to a personal homepage eventually grew into a global force that now powers over 75% of all websites.

Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, originally wrote a few Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs in C to monitor traffic to his online resume. These tools were called “Personal Home Page Tools,” and from these humble beginnings, the history of PHP officially began. Lerdorf kept improving the tools and eventually released them to the public in 1995.....Read continue