It's never the changes we want that change everything.
—Junot Díaz
The static world that we looked at in the last chapter was just the beginning. Once web sites became the norm on the Internet, capturing people’s attention with interactivity and speed became necessary. A landslide of technical updates over the next decade helped the Web mature into a stable platform for serious development and web applications. The need for speed has changed the Internet and the people using it. The tools and technologies that we have today enable us to communicate at such incredible speeds that our view of the world has ...
