Remember when Redux was responsible for making the previously underused switch statement popular in the frontend ecosystem?
Anyone else watched Lonely Planet / Globe Trekker during the 90s? I just recalled the show's classic theme song and had to share it here!
These days we blame social media for keeping kids glued to screens when they should be playing outside instead.
But I remember during the 90s and early 2000s, Cartoon Network and other kids' channels played their best kids shows in the evening just when kids should have been outside.
What is new is old.
4 years of Telecommunication Engineering from 2006 to 2010 was like: This semester, here are a bunch of subjects on how to transmit a piece of information reliably from one device to another over the Internet or mobile network.
Engineering Electromagnetics, Satellite Communication, Signals, Fourier Transforms, Wireless Communication, Fiber Optic Communication, Microwaves and Antennas, Computer Networking Part 1, Computer Networking Part 2 and so on.
After graduating, when I was about to get into web dev, I saw the buzzword "Ajax" in offline IT coaching institutes' banners during my commute everyday. So I allocated one month to "learn Ajax" without knowing what it meant.
2 weeks into learning JavaScript and web dev in early 2012, I read:
"Here’s a single function call to transmit data from the browser to the server without having to reload the page":
$.ajax('http://example.com', {some: 'data'}, {success: function() {console.log('yes'})
Remember when Heroku with its distinctive myapp.herokuapp.com was the default choice for quick deployments like myapp.vercel.app is now, and people used Heroku to create invite pages for Slack communities?