This comment is on point, so all I'll add is this:
> The way out is onwards not idolizing a concocted naive pastoralized past.
Ah, the noble JavaScript savage of 1999 - so in tune with his environment, his nose twitching in perplexed confusion as the unfamiliar scent of DHTML wafts past.
Unconcerned with a future that he cannot possibly imagine, he launches Dreamweaver and begins coding, secure in the knowledge that the more things change, the more they stay the same.