Created in autumn of 1994 by a man named Rasmus Lerdorf, the original purpose of PHP may surprise you: it was simply designed to track how much his online resume was viewed. It was called PHP/FI at this time, which stood for “Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter.”
In 1997 PHP/FI 2.0 was released, and at its peak accounted for 1% of the total domains of the time with approximately 50,000 installations. At this point it was essenti (more…)