Actually I got started when it was PHP/FI when I first started poking at what is now PHP.
As for personal computer related history;
My first computer was a TRS-80 Model III with 4 360k floppy drives and we used LDOS, I wrote a BBS in basic and a serial driver in assembler and started the first incarnation of Above Board BBS, which progressed and moved to the x86 world on a Tandy 1000, and subsequent home built 286.
It grew into a multi-line bbs, part of what was called Fidonet, which I operated until around 1996.
In the late 80’s I got a job working for a local Computerland as tech support, there I received training from IBM, Novell, Compaq and others, after that an independent Computer Consultant specializing in Novel networking and multiuser Clipper DBMS developer.
I wanted to work more from home and as a quadriplegic since 1976, the whole traveling around to clients thing was taking it’s toll, in 1994 a friend an I decided to start an ISP, so we began Access Unlimited of Venice that launched in 1995, which we sold in 2005.
Our first website was on NCSA HTTPd however we quickly moved to Apache, and soon after exploring Perl and PHP/FI.
PHP won.
George
P.S. Proud user of Linux since 1994 😊