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It's things like this that remind me we built the entire modern Internet on a 2 week hackathon project
Context please? I love stories of behind-the-scenes internet evolution...like how the first webcam was developed to track the status of a pot of coffee.
Hadn't heard this one.
All I really know is that JavaScript was developed in 10 days by a single person, other than that I don't know much about the history of the language
Sometimes i think we might have been better off with a browser based perl interpreter insured of JavaScript.
Why are we so clever?