Yeah, 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: I

Yeah, 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.