> I do think that was the golden era of the web. It was quirky and yet beautiful. It was limited and yet diverse. It was the sweet spot between Web 1.0 and Web

> I do think that was the golden era of the web. It was quirky and yet beautiful. It was limited and yet diverse. It was the sweet spot between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. It was Web 1.61803! It was Web Golden! I agree with this, while also wondering how much of it is nostalgia fueled rose colored glasses. I’ve been doing professional web development since the late 90s. Most of my nostalgia is about how much easier things were in the web 1.618 days (though, honestly, I wouldn’t want to do without web 2.0’s Ajax or, later, fetch). For me the big turning point was ES6. All of the sudden it was deemed necessary to transpile our javascript files, which led directly to the build toolchain hell we are in now.