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		lubujackson 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programmers aren’t so humble anymore, maybe becaus... Slapping PHP tags inside an HTML file was a more natural "outside-in" sort of introduction to programming for the web than Perl's approach. If you already knew some HTML and wanted to add a widget to a page, PHP made that dead simple.

bornfreddy 7 months ago [–]

Also, you could just FTP the files to the hosted server and it would magically work. No other language that I know of allowed that at the time.

timeon 7 months ago | [–]

It seems to be lost art now. Running it locally however was different story.

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