Introducing phpMyAdmin - Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.8 for Effective MySQL Management - page 4

tables, edit their structure, and enter and retrieve data. Notice in the figure that
follows that the left frame was already there to list database names (not table names
yet), and the right frame was the workspace to manage a database or table. This is
what the interface for databases looked like in version 1.3.0:
To work on a table, you had the following screen:
I started using phpMyAdmin at version 1.2.0 (released 1998-11-29) and was
immediately hooked on the idea of being able to use a web application to maintain
a remote database. However, students at Collège de Sherbrooke where I work in
Québec, Canada, are French-speaking folks, so I contacted Tobias and offered to
transform his source code by outsourcing all messages in a message file. He accepted
the offer and I created the English and the French message files. Then, on 1998-12-27,
Tobias released version 1.3.1, the first multi-language version. (Meanwhile, he had
managed to create the German message file.)