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Matts Script Archive was mid 90s. Mod perl maybe just squeezes into 'early web', I think /. used it in the late 90s. Perl wasn't the only CGI in the early days
by iso1210 6y ago
Matts Script Archive was mid 90s. Mod perl maybe just squeezes into 'early web', I think /. used it in the late 90s.
Perl wasn't the only CGI in the early days - a large internal web application I encountered as late as 2004 had it's CGIs written in C, running on IRIX
PHP is certainly the newcomer as far as I'm concerned
- ghaff 6y agoLike a number of languages, PHP was around for quite a while before it really took off. PHP is probably most associated with "Web 2.0" as it became the model for web interactions in the mid-2000s.
- iso1210 6y agophp 3 was the first php as we know it, and that wasn't until 97 - before then it was more like SSI. It didn't really compete with mod perl until zend