Once upon a time, you could do all sort of crazy things on the web like run Java programs, and build animations using Flash. There were no standards, so developers had to make different versions of every website they built so that they’re compatible with the browsers at the time. The web saw both a rise in creativity, and in really serious security vulnerabilities, as it became exponentially harder to develop for it. With the adoption of (much needed) web standards and the dotCom crash, the …