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>These days the Internet is so widespread and ubiquitous it's hard to imagine it wasn't exactly there, as we know it, a decade ago. It has greatly evolved, from
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
>These days the Internet is so widespread and ubiquitous it's hard to imagine it wasn't exactly there, as we know it, a decade ago. It has greatly evolved, from simple HTML producing clickable text, based on NCSA and then on Apache web servers, to an always-on communication medium used by more than 2 billion users worldwide.
The Internet[0] has a much richer history and larger ecosystem than just the World Wide Web. The Internet started nearly six decades ago, the web has only been around for a bit more than two.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
- scott_karana 11y agoYeah, I thought that was pretty damn breathless of the author too. Architecturally and usability-wise, we're more or less at the same place as a decade ago: In 2004, both nginx and Gmail were released, and people were going ape about exciting "Web 2.0" technologies like DHTML and AJAX, whose paradigms more or less still underpin all modern development. There have been a lot of additions and streamlinings, but "dynamic pages/apps in the browser without a pageload" were the modus operandi then, and are the MO now.
- nkozyra 11y agoIt's not readily apparent, but this item was written in 2012.
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