25 years of PHP

With a very humble beginning and against all odds, PHP rapidly rose to become the most prominent language on the Web, powering a mind-boggling percentage of the servers and some of the key websites we all use every day. In this talk, we will recap some of the main milestones, achievements and misachievements of the last 25 years; What we did right and what we could have probably done a better job at; And at the end, try to take a guess at predicting the future - of the technology, philosophy and structure of the PHP project.