XML Appliance
I have talked about this on here before, but the utter fervor around XML in the late 90s&#x2F;early aughts is somewhat forgotten and unlike anything else I have seen in my career. Honestly, the current AI boom comes the closest.<p>It’s hard to explain and harder to justify if you weren’t there to see it with your own eyes; “it does XML” was literally a major selling point on so many products.<p>If you weren’t working with XML, what were you even doing with your career? You’re a dinosaur. Every single day someone was inventing new uses for XML. It was talked about like some sort of savior of the software industry. It’s really bizarre looking back.<p>There was something in the water. It lead to a lot of XML centric products like “XML Appliances”.