The ChatGPT That Appeared in 2005 Destroyed the Programming Industry — But You Didn’t Notice

This is how Facebook was introduced in 2004 — or sometime around then. Look at the design. Look at the UX decisions. Or better yet, look at the technical choices. The front end was built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; the back end ran on PHP; the database was MySQL; everything was served on an Apache server — and all of it was built in just one or two weeks of work. Today it looks primitive. But at the time, it was modern. It was cutting edge. It was a product that changed the world. Aroun...