Hi, I have listed some crazy facts about PHP language

• To access localhost one can also use keyword "soccer".
• PHP originally was developed for Personal Home Page as the name specifies PHP.
• PHP which is now officially known as Hypertext Preprocessor and it was released in the year 1995.
• PHP was Initially written as a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) in C (1994).
• It was originally designed to replace a set of Perl scripts to maintain his Personal Home Pages.
• PHP was originally developed by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. He wrote the original Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries.
• Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, two developers at the Technion IIT, rewrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3.
• PHP 3 was official launched in June 1998.
• Suraski and Gutmans rewrote the PHP 3s core, producing the Zend Engine in 1999. They also founded Zend Technologies in Ramat Gan, Israel.
• On May 22, 2000, PHP 4, powered by the Zend Engine 1.0, was released.
• The main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the de facto standard for PHP as there is no formal specification.
• On July 13, 2004, PHP 5 was released, powered by the new Zend Engine II. PHP 5 introduced full featured object-oriented programming support. It was there in PHP 3 and PHP 4 but only the basic features.
• PHP is free software released under the PHP License, which is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) due to restrictions on the use of the term PHP.
• PHP was originally designed to create dynamic and more interactive web pages. It is the most widely-used, open-source and general-purpose scripting language.
• It is possible to use PHP in almost every operating system. PHP can be used in all major operating systems including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and RISC OS.
• PHP uses procedural programming approach or object oriented programming and also a mixture of them.
• 75-80% of Web 2.0 sites are built in PHP. PHP is used by 81.7% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know.
• There are about 5 million PHP developers worldwide.

• The latest release of PHP till now is 5.3.0. It was released on Jun 30, 2009. PHP 6 is under development alongside PHP 5. Major changes in PHP 6 include the removal of register_globals, magic quotes, and safe mode. The reason for the removals was that register_globals had given way to security holes, and magic quotes had an unpredictable nature, and was best avoided.

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