Happy 30th birthday to #PHP. I wrote a history of it several years ago: “If CGI scripts were the start of interactive programming on the web, then PHP was the natural next step — at least on the server-side. Just a month after Brendan Eich created the JavaScript scripting language at Netscape, an independent developer from Canada named Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of a toolset he called Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools).” https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-php-quietly-launches-as-a-cgi-scripts-toolset/

1995: PHP Quietly Launches as a CGI Scripts Toolset
If CGI scripts were the start of interactive programming on the web, then Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) was the natural next step — at least on the server-side.
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Link author: Richard MacManus@ricmac@mastodon.social