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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
26 Aug 2025 Acquired Google Part II: Alphabet
“Then it was in beta for 10 years. But I think the reason it took so long was this was all new.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 26 Aug 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part II: Alphabet
Transcript context
…Long development cycle, yeah. To be ready to release publicly. Then it was in beta for 10 years. But I think the reason it took so long was this was all new. There wasn’t a lot of depth and knowledge out there about JavaScript, certainly not about AJAX and XML dynamic refreshing. It was really hard to program. Today you’ve got all these nice abstraction layers, these frameworks that people have built to do web development that really didn’t exist to make AJAX applications.…
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