Pepperidge-farm Memes

Nostalgia hitting different when you remember the days when jQuery was the framework. Back when chaining $(".className").attr("src", "value") felt like you were writing poetry, and $(document).ready() was literally your entire state management solution. No virtual DOM, no hooks, no build tools that take 45 minutes to configure. Just you, the dollar sign, and pure vibes. Now we've got React with its 47 different ways to manage state, Next.js configs that look like tax returns, and webpack errors that require a PhD to decode. But sure, we've "progressed." Sometimes I miss when "Pepperidge Farm remembers" was the only meme format we needed to express our pain.