The History of PHP

Resums Lerdorf – software engineer, Apache team member, and international man of mystery – is the creater and original driving force behind PHP. The first part of PHP was developed for his personal use in late 1994. This was a CGI wrapper that helped him keep track of people who looked at his personal site.

PHP was being used on approximately 94,000 sites worldwide. It was clearly becoming too big for any single person to handle, even someone as focused and energetic as resume.