I am, indeed, too young to have accurate memories there! Of course right after I posted this I started hearing about GWT and Closure, that's a bit of egg on my face. I mentioned Gmail as an important marker, everyone I talked to remembered it as the _moment_ which proved that JS could write full applications in the browser, but I assumed that it was written with an internal framework of some sort (none of my mentors who've been in the industry mentioned it when I brought up Gmail, and there's no mention of it on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail)
That said, I think it's an important landmark and I may end up revising this post to add a bit more discussion about it. Thanks for pointing it out!
That said, I think it's an important landmark and I may end up revising this post to add a bit more discussion about it. Thanks for pointing it out!