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In the beginning we had the Web 1.0. Each time you clicked on an item or hit Post, the request went round trip to the server, then back to the client and re-rendered. This was slow, looked nothing like a real application, and caused people to become alcoholics, ActiveX users, or -- worst of all -- Flash developers.

We were then given AJAX, which bore us Web 2.0. This allowed us to create "real" Web applications that didn't require rooting our browser for the whole Internet. The purists started to develop single-page applications, and the industry was swarmed with young 20-something programmers with fauxhawks.

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