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Re:An argument for a return to Web 1.0 by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:35PM (#31036101)
> Technologically, there isn't much to separate the eras

This doesn't seem right. AJAX was one the main breakpoints.

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Re:An argument for a return to Web 1.0 by webmaven on Friday April 15, 2022 @12:46PM (#31042424)
While XMLHttpRequest dates to approximately the same time period, it really didn't get a lot of mindshare until Google used it to implement Gmail's and Google Maps' front ends (2004-2005), which is also when the term AJAX was coined by Jesse James Garrett:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150910072359/http://adaptivepa...

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