--- title: Programming Trends Lost To History... | daily.dev description: A nostalgic tour through programming trends that once dominated the industry but have since faded into obscurity. Covers Flash, table-based HTML layouts, XML... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/programming-trends-lost-to-history--9l4yv8sjs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Programming Trends Lost To History... | daily.dev og:description: A nostalgic tour through programming trends that once dominated the industry but have since faded into obscurity. Covers Flash, table-based HTML layouts, XML... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/programming-trends-lost-to-history--9l4yv8sjs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9l4YV8sJS.png og:image:alt: Programming Trends Lost To History... og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Programming Trends Lost To History... **[CodeHead](https://daily.dev/sources/codehead)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A nostalgic tour through programming trends that once dominated the industry but have since faded into obscurity. Covers Flash, table-based HTML layouts, XML and SOAP APIs, database stored procedures as business logic, CoffeeScript, Objective-C, Gang of Four design pattern obsession, and CORBA/DCOM. Each trend is examined with a light, humorous tone, noting what replaced it and why it fell out of favor. Ends with a sponsored segment for Scrimba, an interactive coding learning platform. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Nine unlikely trends shaping software development](https://daily.dev/posts/nine-unlikely-trends-shaping-software-development-dgxiizlg3) · InfoWorld · 18 upvotes · 2 comments - [30 Years of
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