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The Last Blissful Moments Before JavaScript
Javascript Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend
14 days ago 152.4K views 0 shares
The Last Blissful Moments Before JavaScript
The LAST BLISSFUL MOMENTS of humanity before everything went to hell! Look at these sweet summer children partying like there's no tomorrow—because there literally wasn't a JavaScript tomorrow! They're dancing, they're celebrating, COMPLETELY UNAWARE that in just a few months, their lives would be forever cursed with callback hell, undefined is not a function, and the eternal question "why doesn't this work in IE?!" These poor souls had no idea they were living in the golden age. The last generation that knew peace before npm install consumed our lives!

Digital Inheritance Plan
Windows Networking
3 months ago 111.6K views 0 shares
Digital Inheritance Plan
Ah, the golden age of dial-up internet, when downloading a single executable meant you could start it before dinner and hope it finished before retirement. 4.61 KB/sec transfer rate and 39 years remaining? That's not a download, that's a digital inheritance plan for your grandchildren. The best part was the download would inevitably fail at 98% because someone picked up the phone.

Everyone Told Java Not To Script
Javascript Webdev Programming Java Frontend
5 months ago 152.4K views 0 shares
Everyone Told Java Not To Script
The ultimate dad joke of programming languages! Despite sharing zero DNA with Java, JavaScript was named purely for marketing hype in the 90s. It's like naming your hamster "Tiger" because it sounds cooler. The sinister grin in the image perfectly captures Netscape's devious marketing team knowing they were about to confuse generations of developers with this naming atrocity. The relationship between Java and JavaScript is basically the same as car and carpet – superficially similar words describing completely unrelated things. Yet here we are, 25+ years later, still explaining to non-programmers that no, we can't fix their Java problem with our JavaScript skills.