Origin

The Origin of Athenaeum

Some years ago, I started to develop packages and publish them via packagist. The packages were nothing special. But, they helped me complete trivial tasks a bit faster, or perhaps in a more desirable way. After a while, a few packages became many. Whenever I had to upgrade them, it took increasingly more effort and time. In hopes of making things easier for myself, I reshaped all of my PHP packages into a mono repository (since version v4.0). Athenaeum become the chosen name for this project and has existed since then.

Meaning of "Athenaeum"

"[...] Used in the titles of periodicals concerned with literature, science, and art. [...]" (Lexico)