<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>History of PHP and Related Projects</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="appendices.html">Appendices</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="history.php.html">History of PHP</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="appendices.html">Appendices</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="history" class="appendix"> <h1>History of PHP and Related Projects</h1> <h2>Table of Contents</h2><ul class="chunklist chunklist_appendix"><li><a href="history.php.html">History of PHP</a></li><li><a href="history.php.related.html">History of PHP related projects</a></li><li><a href="history.php.books.html">Books about PHP</a></li><li><a href="history.php.publications.html">Publications about PHP</a></li></ul> <p class="para"> PHP has come a long way since its birth in the mid-1990's. From humble beginnings to becoming one of the most prominent languages powering the web, the evolution of PHP is a geek's fairy tale. Mind you, such explosive growth was no easy task. Those of you interested in briefly seeing how PHP grew to become what it is today, read on. If you'd like to touch a piece of Internet history, you can find old releases of PHP in the <a href="http://museum.php.net/" class="link external">» PHP Museum</a>. </p> </div> <hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="appendices.html">Appendices</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="history.php.html">History of PHP</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="appendices.html">Appendices</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
