We could have locked down all the libraries, APIs, and tools to what they were in 1999, but then people would complain about that. :p But really, you can just

We could have locked down all the libraries, APIs, and tools to what they were in 1999, but then people would complain about that. :p But really, you can just use skip it all and write your own code. People would scoff now, but that’s what we did. Well, maybe with prototype and/or jQuery.