"#1 result for most searches" would mean 50% of all searches would have Wikipedia up top, and no site clears that bar.
It’s not like choice is not there.
Regarding PHP, a small wiki or cms was always a starter project back in the day. For sure it’s a good way to wrap your head around a language and project
PHP can hosted in so many places for so cheap. It still has a place, like everything
The economists, the website site, second.
Humans will never fly, etc. Third.
(Extra point for the paywall).
But the future will raise the bar. Perhaps we'll see wiki of wikis, or something else getting the web closer to truly semantic knowledge.
2) You still have LAMP, even if the A is now often Nginx and the M Postgres. But that's besides the point, because several programming languages and web frameworks now come with their own built-in web-server for development, so you don't even need a stack to get started! This part is easier today.
FrankWilhoit•29m ago
tantalor•3m ago