Rasmus Lerfdorf (designer of PHP) did an interview where he explained PHP's origins http://www.twit.tv/floss12 http://www.twit.tv/floss12. It's been a long tim

Rasmus Lerfdorf (designer of PHP) did an interview where he explained PHP's origins http://www.twit.tv/floss12 http://www.twit.tv/floss12. It's been a long time since I listened to the interview, but I think he created PHP to create simple websites. Wikipedia even says the original acronym was "Personal Home Page".