Before PHP, there was CGI, you could (and still can) use Perl or C to write code that generated HTML. PHP was a way to simplify this, at the begining it was just bunch of CGI scripts.
If you want to be complete, because the article looks not finished. I would write about DHTML and inventing of JavaScript at Netscape, and later AJAX. Those are the milestones that lead to Web Apps.
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Before PHP, there was CGI, you could (and still can) use Perl or C to write code that generated HTML. PHP was a way to simplify this, at the begining it was just bunch of CGI scripts.
You can read about this at Wikipedia:
If you want to be complete, because the article looks not finished. I would write about DHTML and inventing of JavaScript at Netscape, and later AJAX. Those are the milestones that lead to Web Apps.