[fizdoonk]

>sure you could just drop PHP in place, but you still needed that host. Setting anything up yourself required twiddling with Apache and mod_php (or using a distro that shipped with packages that enabled it by default).

php has builtin webserver since 5.4. that's like 5-6 years ago

[kbenson]

If we're talking about the rise and dominance of PHP, we're talking about 10-15 years ago.