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JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
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To be fair, the attitude at the time was...
...so they didn't really know any better.
It was before XML, and way before json. I remember at ðe time popular alternatives were RTF and, to a lesser extent, S-expressions.
We now have a pleþora of options, and hindsight. Still, between CORBA and SGML, it was the data format standards dark ages.