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PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

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jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.

Popper is an open source JavaScript library for tooltips and popovers.

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader.

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a JavaScript library developed by Yahoo. The YUI library is no longer actively maintained.

MathJax is a JavaScript engine for displaying mathematical formulas.

Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.

Animate is a CSS library focusing on animations.

The Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server by the Apache Software Foundation.

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.

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Microdata is a specification to integrate metadata within existing content on web pages.

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

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JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

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