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funny acronym: what does PHP stand for?
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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

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
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dungsaga commented Jul 5, 2021 •
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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.

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dungsaga commented Jul 8, 2021

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

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dungsaga commented Apr 5, 2023

Updated link:

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