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A PHP History Lesson
byChris Cornutt Mar 31, 2005 @ 13:48:57

With a little bit of trivia today, Robert Peake answers one of the most asked questions when it comes to PHP and ASP: Which came first?.

According to WikiPedia:

  • ASP 1.0 (distributed with IIS 3.0) on December 10, 1996 (More on ASP)
  • PHP was originally designed as a small set of Perl scripts, followed by a rewritten set of CGI binaries written in C by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 to display his resume and collect some data, such as how many hits it was generating. Others first used "Personal Home Page Tools" in 1995, when Lerdorf had combined it with his own Form Interpreter to create PHP/FI. (More on PHP)

    So, while it is true that ASP 1.0 preceedes PHP 3.0, PHP/FI actually came first.

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