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They basically revolutionized the web with the JavaScript V8 engine in chrome. Before them, JavaScript performance was so bad you had to have a really light touch with it.


  > JavaScript performance was so bad you had to have a really light touch with it.
yep, but slowly the web is going back to js == slow imo, so many sites are so heavy its insane...


The time I'm talking about was a long time before V8 and Chrome even


I miss those times. It allowed for sooo many shitty practices




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