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PHP
I taught myself PHP and wrote some of the first programs on this site in December 2000 so they would have been Version 3 or 4 depending on how current my host was at the time. Interestingly enough Wikipedia begins their Early History on PHP with version 3 and 4. Up to today I have been using PHP 5.3 [the last version to work with my programs] so my old PHP programs will work. To say the least, PHP has come a long way in almost 20 years!
So I am finally going to tackle updating the programs to version 7. The latest official version is 7.3 I knew it needed to be done. My Webtrees installation helped push me, because it would complain, when I installed a new version about my long ago unsupported version of PHP.
The most efficient way for me to learn Version 7s ways is to install a local LAMP stack on my home computer, so that’s what I did. Much better than the constant cycle of changing then uploading/testing which is necessary to get up to speed with something I haven’t really done much with for 15+ years. My LAMP stack uses PHP Version 7.0.33.