Wow, 15 years ago, on June 8th 1995, Rasmus announced PHP 1.0. Time for a personal look back:
I can't remember when I first went online. Out from the local BBS
systems into the wide open net. It must have been around the same
time. But soon I figured out that I needed my own homepage, so I
created one, using black fonts on a green (#00ff00) background. I
was proud. The only issue: I had no idea how to make it
accessible to others, I had the HTML file local on the PC, but
well, I still was proud. I was proud since the effect of this
HTML with a little bit of JavaScript was way stronger than most
of my BASIC stuff I did before.
A bit later, in 1998, a cousin brought a magazine about writing Perl CGI applications which caught my attention so I started learning about CGI and Perl and all the …
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