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I used to love reading A List Apart in the 2000s and associate it with rise of Web 2.0 apps, so when I saw the domain, I wondered why I stopped reading.

After reading, I almost laughed out loud that the author apparently felt the need to relitigate the rise of SPAs, throw in a shoutout to SEO, dunk on Java developers, tug on our heartstrings thinking of the kids in Africa with iPhone 4s crying while Safari parses 100kB of JSON (in 2005, this would have been a story about grandmas surfing the web on IE5), and, as a special treat, throw out a recommendation for Ruby on Rails in 2021.

A List Apart appears to have pivoted to a sort of digital Renaissance fair, but for the year 2007.