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You mean "Personal Home Page"? :)



Recursive acronyms often get redefined down the line


PHP was originally “Personal Home Page”. It wasn’t until version 3 that it became a recursive acronym in an attempt to legitimize it for more than personal projects.


PHP hypertext preprocessor I believe?

PHP3 was the first "real" version of PHP, it came out in 97, and wasn't called personal home page tools then. O'Reilly didn't have a PHP book until 99 if I remember rightly.




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