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		vaylian 19 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: First Website (1992) There's a difference between document-based web sites like this one and web applications. The potential for web applications has mostly emerged as a side effect of the introduction of JavaScript. Back then, JavaScript was supposed to only add minor enhancements to web sites.

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ptx 17 hours ago [–]

Well... Right here on the the very first website Tim Berners-Lee talks about how to build interactive web applications (here called "gateways"), albeit server-side rather than client-side: https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/Server.html

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