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by zdragnar 737 days ago
Corporations fill their ranks with junior developers, more breaking news at 11.

I remember plenty of multi page applications from big corp that ran like a dead dog too, back in the day. Or ASP sites that wrapped the ENTIRE page in a form, with all of the frustrating complications that entailed.
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tracker1 737 days ago
Hated ASP.Net WebForms over dialup for sure... massive view state, it was a mess.
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Kwpolska 736 days ago
ASP.NET WebForms is a mess even on localhost.
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tracker1 734 days ago
I think that's what lead into a lot of "Alt.Net" development and tooling... when the blessed ASP.Net MVC came out a lot of the alternatives just died quickly though.

I switched to straight HTML, JS + .ASHX handlers for a lot of things leading up to that point.

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