1998 is too late, it was all over. PHP was used on over 50k sites by mid-1997. https://ifj.edu.pl/private/krawczyk/php/intro-history.html https://ifj.edu.pl/pr

1998 is too late, it was all over. PHP was used on over 50k sites by mid-1997. https://ifj.edu.pl/private/krawczyk/php/intro-history.html https://ifj.edu.pl/private/krawczyk/php/intro-history.html Netscape Navigator was released late 1994, so this was the point of time where perl developers should have seen the light.