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Most development in the 20th century was not web development.

Sure, there's always a tension of "simple" versus "limited". But simple was fun.

In 2008 I only tested my CSS-heavy small website on my only browser, which is IE6 and quite content with it.

Until I knew more later and it became a disaster.

>> client side apps

Web apps are still client-side apps. OP likely meant "native apps" and mistyped it, but GP was justifiably confused.