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Well kids these days. They said webkit is the new IE, and said the IE era was IE7. Sigh

I cant even name a similar piece of software in web development history that is as important as jQuery.

Despite Web development as a whole, back end or front end is still no where near being good enough, it is still many times better then the old days.

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>cant even name a similar piece of software in web development history that is as important as jQuery.

Php?

Netscape navigator?

Nah, there were always tons of alternatives to PHP. What real alternatives were there to jQuery? There were none.

I know this is a rhetorical question, but Prototype.js was pretty similar to jQuery; although jQuery won the popularity contest.

I don't presume to be an expert on history (only entered the webdev domain in 2010), but didn't prototype come out at least a couple of years after jQuery?

Prototype was released like a year before jQuery.

Absolutely my bad there. Thanks for the info! jQuery's popularity must have been phenomenal, because I hadn't heard of Prototype until maybe 2011.

I think Rails used to include it as a default.

Javascript is irreplaceable to the web

Mootools had a fighting chance.

Php is important in the way it exemplifies the total failure of the software industry to take advantage of it's 40-50 years of accumulated knowledge...

> I cant even name a similar piece of software in web development history that is as important as jQuery.

Apache?

There were other web servers, there weren't other jQuerys.

I get the point you're mentioning but jQuery was there with Prototype.js and Mootools.

And Dojo and YUI and a couple of others.

But Apache was born before jQuery, and continues to live on after jQuery (should have) died.

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