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They're being downvoted because show me useful website that doesn't have any of those things. Yes, it's technically correct to say that you don't need any of those things, but totally pedantic because you WILL use any number of them for ANY real website.

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Here you go: http://arxiv.org

No javascript needed to make a perfectly functional, efficient and useful website. Maybe it doesn't fit into your description of a "real" website?

Uses CSS, though. Which is also on that list.

Most if not all use CSS and javascript, but he mentioned a ton of techniques in such a way as to imply that most websites use all of them or that you needed to know all of them to do web development.

That is just not true. I am sure that most web developers don't know d3, svg (other than exporting it from a drawing program) or typescript.

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