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To fully appreciate Dart’s place in the Web development ecosystem and its purpose, it’s necessary to understand a little bit about where that ecosystem has come from. This appendix is not about Dart; it’s about what led up to Dart. It’s about the languages that have been used for programming the Web throughout its history.
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For more on the early history of the Web, check out The Internet History Podcast at www.internethistorypodcast.com .
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Kopec, D. (2014). History of Web Programming. In: Dart for Absolute Beginners. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6482-8_20
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