MVC ≠ What your pet framework does

MVC is a descriptive point of view, not a prescriptive implementation plan. It's one of the only software idioms that's actually an Alexanderian Pattern, unlike the vast majority of the GoF that's just reflective of language warts/features.

There are tons of completely different ways you could describe the web as MVC:

  Model         View        Controller
  URL           Response    Request
  DB            Response    Request
  Response      Hypermedia  Sub-Requests
  LocalStorage  DOM         Javascript
  data://       JavaScript  DOM Events
  ...