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How We Got Here - The History of Web Development

Talkat NDC Sydney 2018 · 2018-09-17..09-21· [web-platform, javascript]
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Timeline of web tech from 1989 to today with concrete pivots and tools: the first web server runs on a NeXT box (1989), Mosaic and Netscape commercialize browsers (1993–95), Apache/Perl/PHP/ColdFusion power early back ends, Microsoft births ASP.NET and Visual Studio (2002), Rails (2005) and AWS S3 (2006) ignite new stacks, Chrome + V8 (2008) plus Node flip JavaScript into full-stack JavaScript moves from glue to platform, jQuery shipped in VS (2010), Angular/TypeScript and Bootstrap standardize SPA work, then AJAX first shipping in IE via Exchange team, and now WebAssembly lets C#/Go run in browser (Blazor demo 2017), making the browser a universal app host.

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  1. 0:00Start
  2. 2:25STAR WARS
  3. 19:15Active Server Pages
  4. 29:55Explorer 6
  5. 31:34Microsoft ASP.net
  6. 33:58amazon web services
  7. 42:19Microsoft Silverlight
  8. 43:50JavaScript: The Good Parts
  9. 53:33Bootstrap
  10. 55:37Microsoft Edge
  11. 56:52NET Core
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