That is what I have heard as well, "Personal Home page".

It has also been come to be known as "People hate perl".

And of course the (AFAIK) official "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor".

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On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Brian White wrote:

> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:20:49 +1100
> From: Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] What "PHP" Stands For....
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> 
>  From the preface of the manual:
> 
>     'PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" ...'
> 
> I frankly don't beleive that "PHP" started life as a recursively
> defined acronym - I remember reading somewhere that it stood for
> "Personal Home Page" which makes more sense to me.
> 
> Anybody know the truth?
> 
> Regs
> 
> Brian White
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