It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 20 years since the great dotcom crash happened in 2001, which continues to serve as a harbinger of potential doom whenever cyclic tech is on a downward path. I remember quite distinctly hanging out with either unemployed or underemployed folks in the IT field shortly after the great crash in 2001. We were doing just that: hanging out with time on our hands.
It’s been around for a long time, actually, but described how amazing it was that you could program in Java code and deploy, where you want on websites, he said.
Wherever code can be deployed, essentially, the applications are much farther out than just being confined inside the web browser environment.