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I remember when PHP 4 was a thing. jQuery was new and shiny. Sites were built with tables, not divs. Dreamweaver felt like a life hack. Designs were sliced in Photoshop. Databases lived in phpMyAdmin.
It probably didn’t feel like it at the time, but looking back, those were simpler days. The entire concept of the development cycle could fit in my head. There was complexity in building web applications, but it was all manageable. If you had an idea, you could probably build it.
As a solo developer, you could manage everything. From idea to execution. Or at least, it felt that way.
I’m probably romanticizing the past, but you get the idea.
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