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by kevindamm 882 days ago
That's right, I think I let the concepts overlap in my head a bit. Back then I was mostly doing game dev for PCs and some backend work. I remember pre-web 2.0 (loading a whole new page just to see the next tile over on MapQuest or Yahoo!Maps was.. annoying) but my just-waking mind probably confused dynamic to also mean dynamically-loaded. I shouldn't jump on HN before getting out of bed. I would delete my GP comment if I could.

The ability to pull down new results and load them was largely enabled by DHTML, though, because you still need a way to update the page with the new data. But now that I'm more awake I agree DHTML and the unrelated web2.0 features are different things.