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The WWW turned 30 Earth-years old today. I only wish I had more to say to mark the occasion. I've been digging through early web browsers and old webpages out of my own intellectual curiosity. We take too much for granted sometimes as developers of these technologies. I believe there should be more room on the web for primitive browsers to compete, and that to some extent, old tech that still works perfectly fine.
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Maybe I'm just being nostalgic for simpler times. I'm just glad we have standards now. Pre-standards web JavaScript is downright masochistic to program for. Especially considering externalities such as potential memory leaks, bigger performance caveats, and generally less performant hardware if you're simulating the experience of [pre-] dot-com bubble period web browsing as accurately as possible.