I'm too old to forget it. It was the wrong kind. They were the kinds with a bunch of worthless certifications who go everywhere in suits. I expected nothing bu

I'm too old to forget it. It was the wrong kind. They were the kinds with a bunch of worthless certifications who go everywhere in suits. I expected nothing but expensive clunky broken complicated bullshit from them. And that's exactly what they gave you when they pitched XML so I ignored it for over a decade as some tedious wasteful time-consuming thing that dumb people use to rake in hourly contract dollars. But then, maybe 15 years ago or so, I started hitting use-cases that it was designed for and everything changed.