Misarchitecture

The way Web 2.0 works is dumb. Says the author of Unix Admin Corner:

[A Web 2.0 application is] a program that generates another program that is [run] on another computer that calls another program on the server that requests data from another program and sends it back to the client machine, which tells it what to change on the screen when a user does an action.

When people talk about “simplicity” in the same breath as Web 2.0, they’re full of it. It isn’t the most cumbersome way to develop an application, but it sure ain’t the least.