I have talked about this on here before, but the utter fervor around XML in the late 90s/early aughts is somewhat forgotten and unlike anything else I have seen in my career. Honestly, the current AI boom comes the closest.
It’s hard to explain and harder to justify if you weren’t there to see it with your own eyes; “it does XML” was literally a major selling point on so many products.
If you weren’t working with XML, what were you even doing with your career? You’re a dinosaur. Every single day someone was inventing new uses for XML. It was talked about like some sort of savior of the software industry. It’s really bizarre looking back.
There was something in the water. It lead to a lot of XML centric products like “XML Appliances”.
It’s hard to explain and harder to justify if you weren’t there to see it with your own eyes; “it does XML” was literally a major selling point on so many products.
If you weren’t working with XML, what were you even doing with your career? You’re a dinosaur. Every single day someone was inventing new uses for XML. It was talked about like some sort of savior of the software industry. It’s really bizarre looking back.
There was something in the water. It lead to a lot of XML centric products like “XML Appliances”.