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Technetra: Interview: Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP Guru

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 12, 2004

[ Thanks to Robert
Adkins
for this link. ]

“I was originally born in Greenland. I grew up in Denmark. Then
we moved back to proper Denmark and then to Canada. I spent some
time in Brazil and now I’m in the US. I’ve been all over. And
job-wise, I’ve worked for all kinds of companies over the years. I
was at various Bell companies in Canada and the telcos. I was at
Bell Northern Research for a while. I was with a company called
Bell Emergis which does Internet related stuff in Canada. I built
some large Internet systems for Bell and a big system for the
University of Toronto back then. This was the beginning of PHP. I
had written some tools just for my own Web page which became known
then as Personal Home Page (PHP). They started to get somewhat
popular…”


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