The LAMP(P) abbreviation has been around for a long time and its origin simply comes from the fact that the single components were very popular and powered the

The LAMP(P) abbreviation has been around for a long time and its origin simply comes from the fact that the single components were very popular and powered the majority of the web for a long time, and probably still do to a degree. MEAN was a marketing thing that Mongo pushed hard for a while trying to position itself as the "modern" and simple noSQL option. I don't know if it came to be naturally and they leaned into it, or it was their doing entirely. MERN is an adoption of MEAN, and it was only after that I saw these abbreviation become kind of a twitter culture thing, with everyone coming up with their own versions.