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by gaius 5236 days ago
the demands of modern web apps

Hmm, let's see. What does a "modern web app" do? Well there is a screen with fields for users to enter something, and there is another screen where things that (other) users have previously entered formatted nicely for display. Behind the scenes, this data is exchanged between machines that do some other processing on it.

They were doing this in the '60s.