An Oral History of Modern Web Development

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A brisk oral history traces concrete milestones — a linker in 1972, JavaScript born in ten days in 1995, XHR in 2004, frameworks by 2010–11 and bundlers around 2012 — and ties them to current tooling and tradeoffs: a rich client app built with react and many build tools, shipping performance via webpack at the cost of fiddly webpack config that can take weeks, while the platform moves real money — roughly a billion dollars a month and payroll reach around one percent of small businesses (~0.1% of GDP).

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:27Linkage Editor
3. 8:00The First Version of Linux
4. 9:26Netscape Navigator 2
5. 11:252004
6. 16:032012

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