funny acronym: what does PHP stand for?

funny_acronym_php.md

Prrr Home Page

• Pretty Home Page (some people think this is the initial meaning of PHP)
• Professional Homepage Power
• Private Home Page
• Personal Home Page (the original name in the announcement "Announce: Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools)")
• Phucking Home Page

Programmable

• Programmable Hyperlinked Pasta

Recursive initialism

• PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
• PHP: Hyped Poo

Preprocessor, Postprocessor

• Parsed Hypertext Pre-Processor
• Post Hypertext Preprocessor
• Pre Hypertext Processor
• Personal HTML Processor
• Post-Harvest Processing

Pi, Etch and Pi

• Peace, Happiness, and Prosperity
• Poison, Hypnotize, and Petrify
• Paradaemonical Hellish Precipice

Hacked

• Probable Hacked Page
• Pissed His Pants

Pot

• Penultimate Hop Pop
• Penultimate Hot Pot
• Pot Head Pixie

Pretty

• Pretty Horrid Privacy
• Pretty Horrible Privacy (in the vein of Pretty Good Privacy)
• Pretty Horrible Product
• Pretty Horrendous Programming

Perl

• Pretty Horrible Perlclone
• People Hate Perl

People

• People Have Problems
• People Helping People
• Parents Helping Parents
• Potential Hookup Point

Please

• Push Harder Please
• Please Have Patience

Pron

• Porn Hub Programming
• Pretty Hot Programmer
• Pretty Hot Pig
• Pretty Huge Penis

Zend in the clowns? || kuro5hin.org give some funny expansion for PHP:

• Promote Hyper-productive Programming
• Purloining Heinous Piss
• Potted History of PHP
• Pretty High-level Perspective
• Providing Helpful Prerequisites
• PHP Hits Puberty
• Philosophizing and Hasty Prose

Quote from "history - Why some people mentioned PHP as "Pretty Home Page"? Was it once PHP's real name? - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange" (https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/20324/why-some-people-mentioned-php-as-pretty-home-page-was-it-once-phps-real-name):

"Pretty Home Page" is not found in official PHP history. But I saw several people called PHP that way on the internet, and even in some books, teaching & publication:

• An Experimental Study of Detecting and Correlating Different Intrusions | SANS Institute: Php5: The Pretty Home Page Scripting Language
• Intrusion Detection Systems with Snort: Advanced IDS Techniques Using Snort ...: ACID useds PHP (Pretty Home Page) scripting language,
• Security in Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations and Applications: components such as Apache, Pretty Home Page (PHP),
• CS212 Web Programming - Final Exam Notes: Originally Pretty Home Page Tools
• Introduzione a PHP (at PHP Day 2003): Storia del PHP : Rasmus Lerdorf e «Pretty Home Page»
• Programmation avancée pour le Web: PHP : "Pretty Home Page" inventé par Rasmus Lerdorf en 1994
• 20 years Pretty Home Pages - fortrabbit blog: 20 years Pretty Home Pages
• Examples of Quality Documentation in Computing Industry: Although Pretty Home Page is another criminal hack of the unix lineage,
• Besser PHP programmieren (in a comment on Amazon): PHP, das stand einmal für "Pretty Home Page" und dieser Name suggerierte irgendwie etwas hobbymäßiges. Später wurde dies in "PHP Hypertext Processor" umgewidmet und sollte andeuten, dass sich die Sprache professionalisiere. (Translation: PHP, that once stood for "Pretty Home Page" and this name somehow suggested something hobby-like. Later, this was repurposed to "PHP Hypertext Processor" and was intended to indicate that the language was professionalizing.)
• PHP string comparison with no quotes - Stack Overflow: It's a legacy from the times when PHP were just a "Pretty home page" form interpreter and strongly discouraged nowadays.

Was "Pretty Home Page" just a funny nickname of PHP? Or was it once PHP's real name?

Someone has already asked this question in another forum, but received no conclusive answers : OFF-TOPIC Original PHP acronym

I looked at PHP: Revision history - Wikipedia, but there are too many revisions. There's a tool called WikiBlame to find addition/removal, but I didn't find anything with it.

• Programming PHP - Pro-Linux: PHP - das Kürzel stand ursprünglich für "Pretty Homepage" - ist eine Skriptsprache, (Translation: PHP - the abbreviation originally stood for "Pretty Homepage" - is a scripting language)

I wrote a tiny JS script to find any mention of "Pretty Home Page" in Wikipedia page about PHP. My planet earth fellows, please forgive me for abusing Wikipedia :)

jQuery('a.mw-changeslist-date').toArray().forEach((i,j) => jQuery.get(i.href).then(r => r.match(/Pretty\s+Home\s+Page/i) && console.log(j, i.href) || console.log('-')).catch(e => console.warn(j, e)))
// wait for reponses in console log
jQuery('a.mw-prevlink').get(0).click()

I found a positive result at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PHP&dir=prev&offset=20060405042020%7C47038884&limit=100&action=history
Some twisted mind replace "Personal Home Page" with "Pretty Home Page" in 2006 at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PHP&oldid=50554646 just to be reverted in the next revision.

The discussion at OFF-TOPIC Original PHP acronym was archived in Google Groups comp.databases.pick.

Updated link:

• CS212 Web Programming - Final Exam Notes: Originally Pretty Home Page Tools

This gist is gold.