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Adam: So State Software was only able to get one small investor, but Chip and Doug persisted in building their vision of the interactive web, and then they started trying to sell what they had built.

Douglas: And we explained how our system worked and that we had this JavaScript format that we use for moving the data back and forth. And some of our customers were confused and said, “Well, where’s the enormous tool stack that you need in order to manage all of that?” “There isn’t one, because it’s not necessary”, and they just could not understand that. They assumed there wasn’t one because we hadn’t gotten around to writing it. They couldn’t accept that it wasn’t necessary.

Adam: It’s like you had an electric car and they were like, “Well, where do we put the gas in?”

Douglas: It was very much like that, very much like that. There were some people who said, “Oh, we just committed to XML, sorry, we can’t do anything that isn’t XML.” And there are some people who were a little bit more open who said, “Well, we can only do things if it’s a standard.” And they said, “Well, it is a standard. It’s a proper subset of the ECMAScript standard.” They said, “That’s not a standard.”

Like 6 Apr 2023 at 17:09 | Open on mas.to

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argentum

@yogthos There was practically an XML lobby back then. It felt like their objective was to make everything 10x more complex than it needed to be. It was insane.

6 Apr 2023 at 19:54 | Open on argentum.social

Yogthos

@argentum oh yeah, I had the misfortune to work with SOAP services back in the day, it was such a horrendous Rube Goldberg machine

6 Apr 2023 at 20:22 | Open on mas.to

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