No, your parent was correct. I am currently building a complete web application hosting toolkit that I started in earnest in 2015. I worked on it this week. I

No, your parent was correct. I am currently building a complete web application hosting toolkit that I started in earnest in 2015. I worked on it this week. I wouldn't call it a framework, because it's built of small independent pieces, but it's a similar scope to something like Rails. I did start coding long before web frameworks existed though. :)