RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@valpackett/117497245875093364
I still think that the greatest thing about PHP was the learning progression from HTML.
You added snippets to it and they resolved on the server! Magic!
Extremely natural when learning by doing…
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117485038738893225 i guess many people have memory holed the 2000s but PHP mostly took off because shared hosting with Apache mod_php was the only hosting out there. there literally was No Choice. (some hosts allowed CGI but the new-process-per-requ
Treehouse MastodonVal Packett 🧉 (@[email protected])i guess many people have memory holed the 2000s but PHP mostly took off because shared hosting with Apache mod\_php was *the only hosting out there*. there literally was No Choice. (*some* hosts allowed CGI but the new-process-per-request model with interpreted languages on 00s cheap hardware was super slow, and URL setup was hell) VPSes appeared later, were much more expensive, and you had to b