HTML? More like ACHE-TML!

Where did it go wrong? Why has such a simple mark-up language turn into the bloated, over-compensation it is today? What do you turn to? XML? CSS? XHTML? PHP? CGI? ASP? SQL? PERL? HEX? BINARY? ELECTRICAL PULSES? INFARED? TWO CUPS ON A STRING?

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it started going wrong with 'dhtml', when people decided that webpages had to be flashy and pretty and featureful. so mostly it's javascript's fault. after that first fall tho, the second biggest fall since then was flash.

and where to go now? gopher