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> In the so-called modern day it's like everyone - except a few - has dropped their brain on the floor. They keep inventing "revolutionary new ways" of doing the exact same thing that could be done in a dozen ways already.

I mean, I think there are serious rose-tinted spectacles going on here. We don't tend to think as much of the horrors of the past as the javascript-y horrors of the present, but they were there. The worst excesses of OLE/ActiveX (1990-early noughties) spring to mind....



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