Aaaaah the memory of making the an efficient self extracting archive. What is brilliant about the idea is that even to this very day many "new ideas" live around same event loop idea.
http://www.flounder.com/controls.htm
To me at least, if you change the terms in that article, it looks a lot like the arguments in favor of moving away from ad hoc jQuery spaghetti and to React's single global rendering pass.