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PHP and people go hand-in-hand in evolution

POSTED BY admin on Jul 3, 2008 under Web Design

If you use PHP to develop websites, you’ve got to
know that you’ve got something of great significance at your fingertips. You’ve
got human progress. You’ve got an Internet that is more accessible to people.
You’ve got a language that was created by the people for the people.

 

Web developers are normal people. Do you agree?
Most probably if you are reading this article I am talking about you. So look
in the mirror?are you normal? If you are a developer you would know about, or
at least have heard about PHP. PHP is now being used by hundreds of thousands
of developers, and it’s installed on several million sites across the Internet.
We’re talking over 20% of the domains on the Internet people! So, how do you
think technology like this was created then? Do you think it was built by a
team in the massive building of a large company? Wrong?You are completely
wrong. It was made by a single person (he happened to come from Canada if you
feel that is relevant) who was just trying to make a simple set of Perl scripts
that would see how much traffic was going to his online resume. Can you believe
it? This is how technology evolves my friends. Normal people like you have
tasks they need to complete and using a little bit of ingenuity, new ways of
doing things are born. These small new ideas then help humanity to go forward
as a whole species?in this case because now it is much easier to create a
website on the Internet.

 

Having a language like PHP means that you can use a large number of databases,
run it on all of the most popular web servers, and can use it with many
different operating systems. This flexibility means that PHP has a wide
installation base across the Internet. Can you believe that it all started with
one single person like you who had a problem and worked to find a solution? PHP
acts as a filter which takes a file containing text and converts it to another
form, which is mainly used to hand web servers a file consisting only of html.
This lowers the barrier to entry on the Internet, giving more people an
opportunity to join in this unbelievable human phenomenon. So do you know how the PHP story goes next?

 

Like many of the coolest technologies throughout
the history of the world, other people came along and further evolved the original
idea. Take a look at the Model T Ford, then a Formula 1 Ferrari racing car.
What happened? The greatness of people is what happened, and it’s the same with
PHP. Two guys came along (they happened to come from Israel if you feel that is
relevant) and they took this infant technology to the next level. You see, the
first guy (he was named Rasmus if you care about such things)was nice
enough to make the decision to release the source code for PHP for everybody to
see, so that anybody could use it. This means that other people could fix bugs
in it and improve the code. In essence, he employed the rest of humanity for
the job of furthering his ideas. Smart guy?It’s called ?Open-source, right?
What a cool way to give evolution a kick in the butt!

 

These two super-heroes?I mean normal people (I’m
getting carried away aren’t I?) worked for a huge company and were paid
millions of dollars to work on PHP. No, not really. Again, they were just like
you and me. Gutmans and Suraski (sounds like those guys you play basketball
with on Sundays, doesn’t it?) were just trying to develop an eCommerce
application they were working on for a University project. They found that the
first PHP didn’t have enough power and so they did a complete rewrite. Bingo!
This was the first sign of the language that we now use today.

 

Normal human beings like you (Are developers and
programmers normal?) are the ones who have changed the world over time for the
better. Whether it’s the technology that has made it easier for people to build
websites on the Internet giving them a place to express their ideas or share
their services, or the people who are making those really cool sites, it wasn’t
only geniuses and whiz-kids that have helped human society to evolve. Anyone
with one small idea is all that’s needed to start a ripple-effect throughout
the world, to start a revolution in the way things are seen and done in the
world today.

 

If you use PHP to develop websites, you’ve got to
know that you’ve got something of great significance at your fingertips. You’ve
got human progress. You’ve got an Internet that is now more accessible for
people to become part of. You’ve got a language that was created by the people
for the people. My question to you is not, ?Are you going to develop a website
that changes the world?’ My only question is , ?When are you going to get
started?’

About the author

Jesse S. Somer is a creative writer working
at M6.Net: ?The web-hosting company for humans.’ M6.Net is working hard to help
humanity experience the power and freedom to develop their own part of the
Internet, to share their information and connect with anyone, anywhere,
anytime.

 

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