5 August 2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PHP&oldid=1255359

History

PHP was originally designed as a wrapper around Perl by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 to display his resume information, and collect some data, such as how many hits it was generating.

Don't know when the wikipedia entry changed but today it says:
16 August 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PHP&oldid=911090696#History

Early history

PHP development began in 1994 when Rasmus Lerdorf wrote several Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs in C, which he used to maintain his personal homepage.

In reply to Re: (OT) Revisionist History Lesson by Anonymous Monk
in thread (OT) Revisionist History Lesson by Anonymous Monk

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