[yakshaving_jgt]

I see what you're saying and in a broader sense that's true.

More specifically though — in the world of web development — some ideas are actually [as good as] original. When CSR/SPA became well established as an approach in web development, there wasn't a time before it when that approach had been common.

The approach to web development described in the article however is essentially the same approach that web developers commonly used 10-15 years ago.

n.b. I'm aware the CSR/SPA approach is more like 20 years old, but I'm making a judgement call on how common common is. Furthermore, when the CSR/SPA approach was first explored in ~2002, what old idea was it a new take on? Flash? If so, what begets Flash? There was a time before the Internet, and it wasn't all that long ago.

[dunk010]

Thin vs thick client is a much older debate, but you have to go back to the times before the Web ;-)