Craziest part is it was never even intended to be a programming language. From the Wikipedia page, the founder Rasmus Lerdorf is quoted as saying:
"I don't know how to stop it [...] there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language [...] I just kept adding the next logical step on the way."
And 23 years later here we are with php2shell and it powering 70% of the internet’s websites
Yes, actually PHP was not invented but discovered in nature. That’s why it’s a bit wild sometimes, because it still remembers its origins.
PHP was born as a templating language, but mutated into a programming language, and then grew organically from there.
Craziest part is it was never even intended to be a programming language. From the Wikipedia page, the founder Rasmus Lerdorf is quoted as saying:
"I don't know how to stop it [...] there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language [...] I just kept adding the next logical step on the way."
And 23 years later here we are with php2shell and it powering 70% of the internet’s websites
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But that only raises the question: what bore PHP? A bit of a C(hicken) and an egg situation.
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I mean there's no way there was any intelligent design behind it
/ducks and runs
Didn't know that the PHP was lost, thanks for pointing that out.
They found the PHP vulnerability that has upended the world, or so it seems.
The Princely Hippopotamus Parlor in this case.