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It all started with XMLHttpRequest (slightly serious).

Ajax spawned "Web 2.0", which in turn spawned the batteries-included-JS-frameworks (which overtook simpler libraries & plugins). Resume driven development then made them the standard, and we now have a generation of programmers who think a GET request only returns JSON, and were never taught it can also return HTML ;)

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> we now have a generation of programmers who think a GET request only returns JSON, and were never taught it can also return HTML

Can't relate more to this. I sometimes find it difficult to accept that some of my peers in the college thought that fetch is the only way to submit a form. Those were the same people who fetched json to render a static blog post

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