subject: Bags Shoes [print this page] I remember it well It was the summer of 1998I remember it well It was the summer of 1998. ZDTV had just started broadcasting, the
antitrust suit against Microsoft had just been filed, Windows 98 had just been put on the
market, and PHP 3 had just been released. Being in high school, we didnt have much to do
for the summer, so we read up on the latest and greatest web development techniques
trying to learn more about this dynamic thing we had heard about. We had been
developing websites for people for a little while, but they were all static and we wanted to
play with the big kids. We knew there was potential for vast improvements in our
capabilities if only we could learn PHP. So three days later we had a box with Windows 98
up and running with Apache 1.2.6 and PHP 3.
We read up on everything we could find about PHP. We learned about including files so that
we only needed one copy of the code and how to make fancy visitor counters and flat file
guest books. We were hot stuff. We even managed to get PHP to send us an email when
we submitted a contact form. This was going to change everything we knew!
We continued on in this fashion for a good while making dynamic sites for a few local
businesses and some churches, including common headers (inc.php FTW!) and footers,
making forms to mail people, etc. We learned a little more about what we were doing every
