It furthers it for early 2000s projects for sure, a time when getting your site on a Web server was easiest with PHP and most sites didn't rely heavily on AJAX.

It furthers it for early 2000s projects for sure, a time when getting your site on a Web server was easiest with PHP and most sites didn't rely heavily on AJAX. But now most startups will start in "the cloud," using SPA designs, where PHP is not significant.