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Once upon a time, the Internet was supposed to just be a network of interconnected hypertext documents. But as soon as we decided that the Web should be a platform[1], and Netscape Navigator packaged JS, we started down a road where it's quite hard to return.

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I actually miss the days where webpages were static and did not need JS to load basic functionality.

With the rise of the IoT, security is only going to be more and more difficult (e.g., all the automanufacturers' issues as of late); here's hoping we can figure out a way to make security mainstream…

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r38al1w-h4k



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