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title: "Back to the <Future />: A Brief History of Web Development at Minnebar (2025)"
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# Back to the <Future />: A Brief History of Web Development

Alec Rippberger

May 3, 2025

## About the talk

Great Scott!

Journey back in time as we review the past 25 years of web development. Learn how web development progressed from server side and applets to front end frameworks and... back again??? Relive the clever development tricks of yesteryear, and learn about the paradigms of today and tomorrow. Will we ever be able to center a div? Will the web ever run Crysis? Join us to find out.

## Presented by

Alec Rippberger

Software Engineer

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Alec Rippberger

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[Digital Engineering](/insights/all/?topic=digital-engineering) [Web Apps](/insights/all/?topic=web-apps)

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