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Discussion on: A Fundamental Disconnect

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Alex Lohr

When I started to work with JavaScript, the language was still in its infancy, document.write was used on most pages and the browser wars were just starting.

Most developers who came after us don't realize that we live in a golden age, where browsers are performant and capable, where you can run on the server, too. They've gotten so used to it that they can't even see how things could be otherwise.

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Aaron Gustafson

I think I’ve been fortunate in some way to have had a lot of broken experiences since my earliest days on the web. In fact, my first experience was in a command line browser in ’95, trying to use sony.com, which was all image maps with no alternative text. Major fail. It gave me perspective on how things can go wrong.

I also have a knack for breaking things. I think I’m just a lumbering edge case.