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== The Creation of PHP ==
The first version of what came to be know known as PHP was created in 1995 by a man named Rasmus Lerdof. Rasmus , now an engineer at Yahoo!, needed something to make it easier to create content on his web site, something that would work well with HTML, yet give him power and flexibility beyond what HTML could offer him. Using Perl he created some technology that gave him what he needed and decided to call this technology "Personal Home Page".
The name "Personal Home Page" was shortened to PHP and eventually renamed to represent "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" (the name is said to be recursive because the full name also includes the acronym "PHP" (an odd geeky joke that is common in technology circles when people have trouble naming things. GNU is another recursive name that represents "GNU's Not Unix").