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Quilotoa lemmy.ca Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-04-01
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP
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PetteriPano lemmy.world PetteriPano@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-04
#2 · Quote Reply

The S stands for secure.
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psx_crab lemmy.zip psx_crab@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-01-11
#3 · Quote Reply

Full name is Personal Home Page: Hypertext Preprocessor.

Why does it sounds like videogame title.
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Midnight Wolf lemmy.world wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-23
#4 · Quote Reply
psx_crab wrote:
Full name is Personal Home Page: Hypertext Preprocessor. Why does it sounds like videogame title.

personal

looks in

millions of businesses
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Billegh lemmy.world bhamlin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#5 · Quote Reply
Midnight Wolf wrote:
personal looks in millions of businesses

Businesses have feelings too, apparently
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whyNotSquirrel sh.itjust.works whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-10
#6 · Quote Reply

You should look up "Wine" (the window emulator for Linux)
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reev sh.itjust.works reev@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-08
#7 · Quote Reply
psx_crab wrote:
Full name is Personal Home Page: Hypertext Preprocessor. Why does it sounds like videogame title.

phphp
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Obi sopuli.xyz Obi@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-01
#8 · Quote Reply

But what does the P in that one stand for?
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0xDREADBEEF lemmy.dbzer0.com dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-18
#9 · Quote Reply

you won't believe what the W stands for in WINE.

There recursive acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym
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tourist lemmy.world tourist@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#10 · Quote Reply
Obi wrote:
But what does the P in that one stand for?

Penis
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Log in | Sign up lemmy.world davidagain@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-22
#11 · Quote Reply

GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix.
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Taleya aussie.zone Taleya@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#12 · Quote Reply

It's exploits all the way down.
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dudeface lemmy.world dudeface@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-06-20
#13 · Quote Reply

GNU does it a lot, for some reason that lot find it hugely entertaining
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zikzak025 lemmy.world zikzak025@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-24
#14 · Quote Reply
whyNotSquirrel wrote:
You should look up "Wine" (the window emulator for Linux)

the window emulator

But Wine is not an emulator
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Elvith Ma'for feddit.org elvith@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-21
#15 · Quote Reply
zikzak025 wrote:
the window emulator But Wine is not an emulator

Funny how "Wine Is Not an Emulator" spells out Wine, don't you think?
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idealotus lemmy.world idealotus@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#16 · Quote Reply

YAML does this too. YAML Ain't Markup Language.
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yopyop sh.itjust.works yopyop@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-12
#17 · Quote Reply
idealotus wrote:
YAML does this too. YAML Ain't Markup Language.

Same for the mp3 encoder :

Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder.

https://lame.sourceforge.io/about.php
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myyass lemmy.world myyass@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-09-02
#18 · Quote Reply

I thought it stood for PCP.
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zikzak025 lemmy.world zikzak025@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-24
#19 · Quote Reply
Elvith Ma'for wrote:
Funny how "Wine Is Not an Emulator" spells out Wine, don't you think?

Or maybe it could be Wine Is aN Emulator...

Really makes you think...

^^^/s
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crunchy lemmy.dbzer0.com crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-05-28
#20 · Quote Reply
idealotus wrote:
YAML does this too. YAML Ain't Markup Language.

Huh. For some reason i thought it was Yet Another Markup Language. But yours is more on brand.
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blackberry28 sh.itjust.works blackberry28@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-07-29
#21 · Quote Reply
crunchy wrote:
Huh. For some reason i thought it was Yet Another Markup Language. But yours is more on brand.

That was the original meaning. It got changed at some point.
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π•Έπ–”π–˜π–˜ infosec.pub 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub
Joined: 2023-06-04
#22 · Quote Reply
tourist wrote:
Penis

I see that, too, are a card carrying member of the PEN15 club.
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dmalteseknight programming.dev dmalteseknight@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-17
#23 · Quote Reply
dudeface wrote:
GNU does it a lot, for some reason that lot find it hugely entertaining

Do they still do it? Thought it was the meme/fad of the 80s/90s.
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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#24 · Quote Reply
Midnight Wolf wrote:
personal looks in millions of businesses

Yes, things change, hence the hindsight redefinition of what PHP stands for.
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/home/pineapplelover lemmy.dbzer0.com pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-30
#25 · Quote Reply
idealotus wrote:
YAML does this too. YAML Ain't Markup Language.

WINE Is Not an Emulator
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MouldyCat feddit.uk MouldyCat@feddit.uk
Joined: 2024-11-25
#26 · Quote Reply
blackberry28 wrote:
That was the original meaning. It got changed at some point.

oh interesting, as that's what PHP did too. Originally it was just a set of shell scripts for creating "Personal Home Pages" and it gradually grew into the beautiful swan it is today <3
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mlg lemmy.world mlg@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-29
#27 · Quote Reply

There's a joke in here about them essentially covering up the old name and PHP's reputation but I don't feel like starting a sledge thread over PHP when JavaScript is right there lol.
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StabbingSky lemmy.zip StabbingSky@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-04-30
#28 · Quote Reply
Obi wrote:
But what does the P in that one stand for?

Preprocessor
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stickyprimer lemmy.world stickyprimer@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-21
#29 · Quote Reply
0xDREADBEEF wrote:
you won't believe what the W stands for in WINE. There recursive acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym

_ Nested_ recursive acronyms, even!

This inspired the two MIT Lisp Machineeditors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs", German for one) and ZWEI("ZWEI Was EINE Initially", German for two)
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vortexsurfer lemmy.world vortexsurfer@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
#30 · Quote Reply
0xDREADBEEF wrote:
you won't believe what the W stands for in WINE. There recursive acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym

My favorite is GNU Hurd, a mutually recursive acronym!
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resipsaloquitur lemmy.cafe resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe
Joined: 2026-04-14
#31 · Quote Reply
crunchy wrote:
Huh. For some reason i thought it was Yet Another Markup Language. But yours is more on brand.

You’re thinking of YACC.
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moldy_rice piefed.keyboardvagabond.com moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
Joined: 2026-08-07
#32 · Quote Reply

Wait till you learn what the G in GNU stands for
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thecryptickler reddthat.com thecryptickler@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-10-25
#33 · Quote Reply

PHPΒ²
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