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Replies for: Read enough about the history of technology and you’ll run into the story of something being invented for one specific thing that morphs into somet...

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Matthew Orndoff • • Edited

Reminds me of what happened with the table element.

It was designed to display tabular data.

But soon everyone figured out you could do entire page layouts with it.

Dark times.

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Adam Crockett 🌀 • • Edited

we will remember you... Oh wait

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Luis Augusto •

That technique is still used today for email layouts, I'm just glad there are more tools out there today that build them for you.