Coding Then and Now

Text on the meme

Coding in 2000 HTML + CSS + JS Website Coding in 2020 JavaScript webpack Vue? React? Rollup? Angular? npm Yarn Amazon Shopping on Amazon UI Library Tailwind Bootstrap GitHub BitBucket Netlify Vercel (NOW) DigitalOcean PWA (nah) WASM SSG React Native Flutter Ionic ABANDON PROJECT

What it means

The video contrasts coding in 2000, where HTML, CSS, and JavaScript supposedly led directly to a website, with coding in 2020, which spirals through an overwhelming maze of frameworks, tools, platforms, libraries, and competing technologies. The punchline is that after navigating this absurdly complicated ecosystem, the developer finally gives up and abandons the project. The energetic dubstep track “Chain Hang Low” by Crizzly amplifies the frantic escalation and makes the technological overload feel comically dramatic.

Sound

♪ Crizzly — Chain Hang Low

music / музыка

Objects

computer screen / экран компьютера coding diagram / схема программирования stylus / стилус hand / рука website label / надпись «Website»technology list / список технологий curved arrows / изогнутые стрелки highlighted heading / выделенный заголовок HTML code / HTML-код CSS code / CSS-код JavaScript / JavaScript framework names / названия фреймворков web development tools / инструменты веб-разработки TikTok watermark / водяной знак TikTok circled text / обведённый текст