PHP is 25! 🎂 The Register has a nice summary of its history that links to a 2017 talk given by Rasmus Lerdorf. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend this presentation, especially for developers.
JetBrains also has a PHP story worthy of your time with a timeline of important events.
The very first version of PHP was a simple set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in C. Originally used for tracking visits to Rasmus’s online résumé, he named the suite of scripts “Personal Home Page Tools” or “PHP Tools.” 🔨
