do you remember IE6? that's before jQuery, the time of ActiveX and java applets
you're right that it got better by the time of jQuery...
when I started on this (highschool time for me), we was writting HTML by hand. PHP 3 was used in production; PHP 4 was brand spanking new. CGI was a thing, imagine that! C code used to dynamically make HTML stuff, exposed on the web! (through C? gateway interface)
do you remember IE6? that's before jQuery, the time of ActiveX and java applets
you're right that it got better by the time of jQuery...
when I started on this (highschool time for me), we was writting HTML by hand. PHP 3 was used in production; PHP 4 was brand spanking new. CGI was a thing, imagine that! C code used to dynamically make HTML stuff, exposed on the web! (through C? gateway interface)