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V8 & Node.js: JavaScript Breaks Free

Google's V8 engine made JavaScript fast. Ryan Dahl's Node.js put it on the server. Together they unified web development and created the npm ecosystem.

Apr 15, 2026

Power Tools Foundational

The DOM: Making Web Pages Programmable

The W3C's Document Object Model turned static HTML into a living tree that JavaScript could read, modify, and rebuild — the API that made the interactive web possible.

Apr 10, 2026

Power Tools Foundational

CGI: The First Dynamic Web

A simple standard let web servers run programs instead of just serving files — turning static pages into interactive applications and opening the door to everything that followed.

Apr 9, 2026