The time traveller's guide to web technologies

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Covers concrete milestones: 10 days to create JavaScript, the 30‑year anniversary, jQuery’s diffusion of DOM tricks, Chrome/V8 enabling Node.js and npm, and AWS Lambda spawning serverless functions. Calls out the leftpad supply‑chain outage, adoption numbers implied by Atwood’s Law, Temporal landing only in Firefox and Deno, and repeated bloat from frameworks; describes real projects (Express apps, web consoles, serverless endpoints) and whether they simplified or worsened performance and maintenance.

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1. 0:00Welcome
2. 3:55Past web decisions
3. 12:41JavaScript bloat
4. 16:54Mobile JavaScript
5. 20:51Flash vs HTML5
6. 23:02Node.js on server
7. 27:16Cost of new tools
8. 30:01ECMAScript 6
9. 33:11JavaScript future

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