I was just surprised that something that was so obvious and "core" to the web to me (I'm in my forties) was unknown by others who are doing things which I consider more advanced or complicated as doing requests through redux, rxjs, etc.
It's just surprising to me. Feels like we're failing at teaching web dev by starting from the top instead of from the bottom.
Like if we're teaching physics by starting from relativity and quantum mechanics without having thaught people to do basic maths.
Part of the problem is that the browser itself floats on the underlying operating system. I've been reading "The Art of Science and Engineering" by Hamming. He talks at length of how the history of computing is the history of moving up the stack, usually by tooth and nail. I suspect there will be a day soon where HTML and HTTP will be a thing of the past, like how embedded engineering seems to have not caught much interest among my generation. We will have to wait and see.
