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altmanaltman ◴[04 Dec 25 19:36 UTC] No.46151822[source]▶

Headline has a serious case of "Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave, with a box of scraps" syndrome. What runs the internet today is completely different from the "hack" and more than at least 1 Netscape employee worked on it and its modern iterations.

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1. commandlinefan ◴[04 Dec 25 20:21 UTC] No.46152474[source]▶

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Well, in fairness to the headline, all of the bad parts of Javascript introduced in those 10 days are still there.

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In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet