Really? I always thought jQuery was just a shorthand for it cause it’s too long to type. And they really walked the DOM to look for an element? What an ugly runtime it was, ugh.
If you think that's wild, before there were dev tools in every browser, there was only Firebug (yes, there was only `alert` before that, we didn't even have `console.log`):
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39979816/how-was-jquery-...