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by mdmglr 1632 days ago
In 2001 I was in the 3rd grade and neopets.com was the website everyone spent time on in the computer lab. I wanted to learn how to build a website and with some googling learned about Apache, PHP and MySQL. Shortly after I was trying to figure out why performance was bad. This is when I learned about the request-response loop, background task queues etc. I kind of grew out of PHP (it was missing some of the concepts found in other mature languages) and switched to Java. Looking back I’m happy to see PHP has matured as a language and ecosystem.