PHP

“”PHP was originally developed by Rasmus Lerdorf back in 1994 as part of his work on a series of Perl scripts he was using to maintain he own website. In 1995, he released these tools as the "Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter" (PHP/FI) with included support for web forms and database communication. By 2004, version 5 of PHP was released and would go on to become one of the most widely used web technologies. A more secure version was planned, version 6, but this was eventually abandoned when it proved hugely problematic. PHP moved instead to a new engine with series 7.xx

—David Dwyer (October 23, 2018) PHP: a history and why PHP7 matters Linkedin Pulse