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Yeah. Im surprised that both of these left out Prototype.js which, to me, seems to be the father of these client-side libs

Yes! I think prototype was the first to use the dollar sign as a shorthand for dom methods.

i'll cop to the fact that its mainly bc i wasnt around for that time so i'm just reconstructing things from how they look to me today

Maybe an old dude like me should make an attempt