The developers of PHP created the most popular language on the web. They built a language that is not only preferred by people with no programming background, b

The developers of PHP created the most popular language on the web. They built a language that is not only preferred by people with no programming background, but also powers some of the most influential and popular websites (eg, Wikipedia, Facebook). They did all this with zero-or-negative hype around them and while competing in a space that some of the richest companies in the world (Microsoft, Sun, IBM) have poured massive resources into. So, yeah, they did screw up here and there. But very few projects were remotely as successful as theirs.