We constantly hear of all these great inventions coming from Europe, but you know what most people don't understand? Much of the messaging technology we see today as well as programming languages (like PHP) are a result of Jewish minds.
ICQ was developed in Israel which was the predecessor for AIM/AOL and instant messaging is a popular method of talking with each other.
However what many people do NOT realize is that a majority of our dynamic websites that communicate with databases (like when you login to your bank account online and it verifys your account and displays your balance), or forums (like JTF) that allow posting capability and content management scripts, a majority of these sites use the PHP language.
Heres some information on PHP and who created it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHPZeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, two Israeli developers at the Technion IIT, rewrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3, changing the language's name to the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.[4] The development team officially released PHP/FI 2 in November 1997 after months of beta testing. Afterwards, public testing of PHP 3 began, and the official launch came in June 1998. Suraski and Gutmans then started a new rewrite of PHP's core, producing the Zend Engine in 1999.[10] They also founded Zend Technologies in Ramat Gan, Israel, which manages the development of PHP.
So next time you see a nazi website like StørmFrønt which uses software written in PHP, go ahead and poke fun at them that they rely on Jewish technology to post their little hate messages. Or better yet, tell them to use the predecessor to modern PHP which was basically similar to PERL and very primitive compared to todays standards.
Andi Gutmans (Hebrew: אנדי גוטמנס) is an Israeli programmer with Swiss roots, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. A graduate of the Technion, Haifa, Gutmans and fellow student Zeev Suraski created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has since overseen PHP advances. The name Zend is a portmanteau of their forenames, Zeev and Andi.
Gutmans is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and was nominated for the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 1999.
In 2004 he wrote a book called "PHP 5 Power Programming" together with Stig Bakken and Derick Rethans.
Zeev Suraski (pronounced Ze-Ev; Hebrew: זאב סורסקי) is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. A graduate of the Technion, Haifa, Suraski and fellow student Andi Gutmans created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has since overseen PHP advances. The name Zend is a portmanteau of their forenames, Zeev and Andi.
Suraski is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and was nominated for the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 1999. Zeev Suraski is the CTO for Zend Technologies.
PHP 3
PHP 3.0 was the first version that closely resembles PHP as we know it today. It was created by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski in 1997 as a complete rewrite, after they found PHP/FI 2.0 severely underpowered for developing an eCommerce application they were working on for a University project. In an effort to cooperate and start building upon PHP/FI's existing user-base, Andi, Rasmus and Zeev decided to cooperate and announce PHP 3.0 as the official successor of PHP/FI 2.0, and development of PHP/FI 2.0 was mostly halted.
One of the biggest strengths of PHP 3.0 was its strong extensibility features. In addition to providing end users with a solid infrastructure for lots of different databases, protocols and APIs, PHP 3.0's extensibility features attracted dozens of developers to join in and submit new extension modules. Arguably, this was the key to PHP 3.0's tremendous success. Other key features introduced in PHP 3.0 were the object oriented syntax support and the much more powerful and consistent language syntax.
The whole new language was released under a new name, that removed the implication of limited personal use that the PHP/FI 2.0 name held. It was named plain 'PHP', with the meaning being a recursive acronym - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
By the end of 1998, PHP grew to an install base of tens of thousands of users (estimated) and hundreds of thousands of Web sites reporting it installed. At its peak, PHP 3.0 was installed on approximately 10% of the Web servers on the Internet.
PHP 3.0 was officially released in June 1998, after having spent about 9 months in public testing.
As of April 2007, over 20 million Internet domains were hosted on servers with PHP installed, and PHP was recorded as the most popular Apache module
There’s an interesting article here (ynet.co.il, Hebrew) about the subject. Here’s a headline-level translation (the article itself gets deeper on each point):
The ZIP compression method (used in ZIP compression, 7z, GIF, PDF and other formats): based on the LZ algorithm by two Israeli researchers: Abraham Lempel and Yaakov Ziv
The first VoIP application was developed by an Israeli company (VocalTec) in 1994. It was named… iPhone. The company didn’t succeed to lift, but many others benefited from its technological breakthroughs.
Disk On Key - the small USB-flash storage drive, was invented by M-Systems, an Israeli company founded by Dov Moran. M-Systems was purchased by Sandisk (also an Israeli company, by the way)
Babylon - translate in a click. The pioneer of this technology, in 1997.
PHP - the popular server-side programming language was developed by two Israelis.
ICQ - the first of the hyper-popular instant-messaging application, was developed by Mirabilis, an Israeli start-up which was later purchased by AOL.
MetaCafe - a popular video-sharing website website that was developed by an Israeli in 2003, long before YouTube.
Haifa’s Intel development center, has large parts in the development of MMX, Pentium 2, and lately the huge success of the Centrino mobile platform. The Haifa center is currently Intel’s main CPU development house, and most of the currently popular chips (including Core 2) were designed there.
The term FireWall was coined by an Israeli internet security company - the giant CheckPoint, with their corporate security solution in 1994. Home users are probably more familiar with its ZoneAlarm product.
The RSA encryption algorithm, which is used almost universally for public-key encryption these days is one-third Israeli, the ‘S’ coming from the surname of Adi Shamir, an Israeli cryptography researcher.
Israeli companies have strong contributions to early anti-virus technology. In fact, one of the earliest anti-virus products (in 1988!) was made by the Israeli company BRM, which was purchased by Symantec.
Articles in Hebrew
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3541234,00.html
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