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Strongly product-oriented/Proper-Noun-centric view of it. There's good stuff here, but the eras felt more amorphous & fluid, different people riffing with ideas
by jauntywundrkind 3y ago
Strongly product-oriented/Proper-Noun-centric view of it. There's good stuff here, but the eras felt more amorphous & fluid, different people riffing with ideas in different ways. The presentation here feels distorting, contorts things into a Great Man view of history that doesn't feel representative of the times.
I forget the guys name, and I think I have it wrong, but Raymond Cheng or some name like that has an excellent 3+ part writeup of the web, that I thought was a lot more respectful of protocols & iteration & change. And much more inclusive of the front end, where-as this feels dominated more by back end concerns. Front end basically dicides up html, css, and js and calls it a day?
- kr0bat 3y agoI'd love to read the writeup if you find it. You might be thinking of Microsoft's Raymond Chen? I'd be surprised if he's written about the web in depth
- kapitanjakc 3y agoWas frontend during that time consisting of more things?
- dboreham 3y agoHistory is always bunk if you lived it.