PHP is a scripting language designed for web development, created by the Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf, who announced a set of tools called Personal Home Page Tools on a Usenet newsgroup. The tools began as simple programs for tracking visitors to his online resume. The language was rewritten in 1997 and 1998 by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, becoming PHP 3, and its name was changed to a recursive acronym, PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Its ease of use, free availability and ability to embed code in web pages made it hugely popular, and it powers a large share of websites, including the WordPress content management system. It is often criticised for its inconsistent design, which has improved in recent versions.
Before and after
- 30 April 1995The Internet opens to commercial use
- 23 May 1995Release of MySQL
- 25 May 1995Tuzla massacre
- from 25 May 1995 to 26 May 1995May 1995 Pale air strikes
- 8 June 1995Creation of PHP
- 24 June 1995Nelson Mandela presents the Rugby World Cup to South Africa's captain
- July 1995Srebrenica massacre
- 17 July 1995The Global Positioning System reaches full operational capability
- from 21 July 1995 to 23 March 1996Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1952Discovery of einsteinium
- December 1952Discovery of fermium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 20th century.