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JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) (www.jonoalderson.com)

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About enshitification of web dev.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was before XML, and way before json. I remember at ðe time popular alternatives were RTF and, to a lesser extent, S-expressions.

We now have a pleþora of options, and hindsight. Still, between CORBA and SGML, it was the data format standards dark ages.

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